NWP Press Room
Welcome to the National Writing Project Press Room, where you'll learn about news and events that make a difference to the teaching of writing and to student writing achievement in America's schools.
Thousands of Teachers Focus on Writing over Summer Vacation (May 28, 2009)
More than 3,000 kindergarten through college teachers across the country will dedicate four weeks of their summer break to learning new strategies to improve their students' writing skills. More ›
Arizona Teachers Learn to Be as Good as Their Words (June 26, 2009)
Arizona Daily Star
Teachers gather in Tuscon for the Southern Arizona Writing Project's summer institute to not only become better teachers and get "a taste of teaching paradise," but also to become better writers.
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Investing in the Improvement of Education: Lessons to be Learned from the National Writing Project
The authors argue that educational progress in the United States has been limited because improvement has been treated as "expenditure, not investment." The NWP, however, provides a model that creates a "robust, cost-efficient infrastructure for education improvement." More ›