NWP's Reach

NWP sites conduct thousands of programs each year. Read the reports below for more details about the breadth and depth of professional development writing projects provide across the nation.

Investing in the Improvement of Education: Lessons to be Learned from the National Writing Project (2008)
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 ›

Investing in the NWP: The Creation of Educational Capital (2008)
The authors from Inverness Research argue that investment in NWP is not simply "expenditure." Rather, the NWP structure allows for the creation of varied forms of "educational capital" that contribute to the continuing improvement of writing in the nation's schools. More ›

An Evaluator's Perspective on the Importance of Federal Support of the National Writing Project (2008)
This presentation prepared by Inverness Research for the National Writing Project's April 2008 Spring Meeting explains, from an evaluator's perspective, why and how NWP represents an important federal investment in the improvement of the nation's education system. More ›

Small Federal Investment Leads to Large-Scale Improvements (2007)
Inverness Research Associates' PowerPoint presentation from the 2007 NWP Spring Meeting demonstrates how a relatively small federal investment in the NWP infrastructure leads to large-scale improvements in student writing. More ›