Keith Hughes, history teacher extraordinaire and producer of the excellent Hip Hughes History videos, recently published a new video for stu...

Read Write Think is a good source of interactive writing templates. I've previously featured a handful of their templates including thi...

Plagiarism, as teachers we see it a lot. Sometimes it's done intentionally, sometimes it's done accidentally. Either way we can'...

Future Me is a neat service that lets you write an email to your future self and have it delivered to your email inbox at a time that you s...

The JFK Library is once again hosting a Profile in Courage Essay Contest. The contest asks US high school students (grades 9-12) to write a...

Magic Grade is a new service that is simply magical! Magic Grade takes the tedium out of grading essays. Here's how it works, students ...

WordCounter is a simple tool that writers can use to identify the words that they use most frequently in their text. To use WordCounter si...

It's kind of an odd time to hold an essay contest, but Inventors Digest is holding an essay contest during the month of August for midd...

Great Source iWrite from the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt company features an awesome animated and narrated glossary of grammar terms . In thi...

Essay Map is a handy tool from the folks at Read Write Think . Essay Map provides students with step by step guidance in the construction ...