My youngest came home with the map of Africa he had worked on all last week in class, his disappointing grade scrawled across his assignment book. "What happened?" I asked. From the teacher's point of ...

This rubric is based on four elements that together work for an effective paper: thesis, evidence and analysis, structure, and style: The A paper makes an interesting, complex, and important argument ...

My youngest came home with the map of Africa he had worked on all last week in class, his disappointing grade scrawled across his assignment book. "What happened?" I asked. From the teacher's point of ...