Beginning Oct. 1, all soldiers and noncommissioned officers preparing to attend an NCO professional military education course will be required to take an English comprehension and writing assessment.

The most recent data we have—from 2011—shows that only 27% of students score proficient or above in writing. The next writing test isn't scheduled until 2030. Every two years we hear how American ...

Princeton and Stanford last week became the latest schools to drop the SAT essay requirement. The College Board made the section optional in 2016. Skeptics will applaud this essay’s demise as a return ...

Jeff Grabill is a co-founder of Drawbridge Incorporated, an educational technology company. Its product, Eli Review, is a peer learning technology used in environments in which writing is a resource ...

Princeton University on Thursday announced that it will no longer require applicants to submit writing portions of the SAT or ACT. Stanford University is making a similar change. Princeton is, however ...

A report of a review of NAPLAN released in recent days cited the writing part of the test to be the most problematic. The report noted the NAPLAN […] has led to formulaic writing in students’ ...

A group of students begins an in-class writing test. According to new data analysis, half of U.S. eighth graders have difficulty with long-form writing on tests and classwork that involves reading.