The college experience teaches you many skills, from how to take notes to pulling off all nighters to surviving on a diet of takeout and microwave noodles. One set of skills, though, that our ...

After decades of paper-and-pencil tests, the new results from the “nation’s report card” in writing come from a computer-based assessment for the first time, but only about one-quarter of the 8th and ...

BOZEMAN — Starting in two years, only students who pass a writing proficiency test will be fully admitted to Montana’s four-year state colleges and universities, the Board of Regents decided Friday.

The Graduate GWAR is a CSU wide requirement that should be completed by graduate students before advancing to candidacy. The purpose of the GWAR is for students to demonstrate their proficiency at ...

Undergraduate students at CSUN have maintained a steady proficiency in their writing skills over the past several years, in contrast to a study done and published by two sociologists who say that ...

A bill removing the requirement that Oregon students in the classes of 2022, 2023 and 2024 demonstrate basic proficiency in math, reading and writing to earn a high school diploma passed a key ...

Harvard in 1900 had only one required course -- freshman composition -- reflecting the faculty’s belief that writing was too important a skill to be left to caprice. After all, back in 1874-- 1874! -- ...

The nation’s 4th and 8th graders have shown some improvement in their writing proficiency in the past several years, but one in four high school seniors still has trouble drafting effective written ...

The California Education Code and Title 5 Regulations specify that applicants for a credential, certificate, or permit to serve in the public schools of California must verify basic skills proficiency ...

All CSUN students must take the Upper Division Writing Proficiency Exam in order to graduate. Students are eligible to take the exam after completing a total of 56 semester units and after completing ...