Posts tagged Hochman Writing Program
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If students can’t write, how can they learn?
When I started tutoring students in writing at a high-poverty D.C. public high school this year, I was prepared to run into some problems. I knew it was hard for an overworked teacher with a class of 25 or 30 students to engage in the kind of one-on-one work that teaching writing often requires. That’s why I volunteered to help. Keep reading…
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DCPS tries to bring a writing revolution to the District
It’s been clear for a while that students’ writing skills in DC, as in many other school districts, are seriously lacking. Now DCPS is beginning to do something about the situation. For years, DCPS teachers haven’t focused on teaching writing. It’s a hard skill to teach when you have a class of 25 or 30 kids, and teachers haven’t been trained to… Keep reading…