I recently learned that according to a group of education experts, the most impactful writing assignment of my life would not be rated as “high quality.” This was third grade, when our teacher, Mrs.

Technology is quickly changing the landscape of our world – sometimes at a pace so rapid that we don’t know how to keep up with it. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a new, powerful tool that we are ...

I’ve long been a fan of plain text for everything from notes to general writing, but it wasn’t until recently that I found my holy grail: An app that could sync with multiple devices and handle ...

Write! has its limitations, but its ability to save all versions for infinite undo/redo, and its ability to take you exactly to where you left off in a document, are conveniences no other competitor ...

In May, I was confronted with a robot version of my writer self. It was made, at my request, by a Silicon Valley startup called Writer, which specializes in building artificial-intelligence tools that ...

In one sense, the national conversation about what it will take to make sure all children become strong readers has been wildly successful: States are passing legislation supporting evidence-based ...

A teacher recently wrote to literacy expert Timothy Shanahan to ask: Should she be making more time for students to respond to a text they’ve read through writing? Or are classroom discussions enough?