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With educators under enormous pressure to make sure students meet grade level standards in reading and math, writing often takes a back seat in the curriculum, as many literacy experts have observed.

This story originally appeared on the Christensen Institute’s blog and is reposted here with permission. Ninth-grade English was a paradox for me—both the best and worst year for helping me learn to ...