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National Media Turn to NWP for Explanation of Writing Results
Date: April 8, 2008
Summary: When results of The Nation's Report Card: Writing 2007 were released on April 3, news outlets from across the country were quick to call NWP to help explain the findings.
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When results of The Nation’s Report Card: Writing 2007 
were released on April 3, news outlets nationwide were quick to call NWP to help explain the findings. Be it the increase in average scores for America’s eighth- and twelfth-graders, or the disparity in marks between girls and boys, writing project educators offered answers and suggestions.
Furthermore, states and districts that experienced a rise in test scores publicly praised the writing project for high-quality professional development that paid off with better teaching and improved learning for their students.
- An official with the Department of Education said in The Honolulu Advertiser that teachers of the Hawai’i Writing Project transformed their students’ writing and that more teachers should have writing project training.
- In The Casper Star-Tribune, Wyoming’s state superintendent credited the Wyoming Writing Project for Wyoming students outscoring the national average for the first time.
- Illinois writing project teachers were proud that the state’s teachers continued to focus on writing in the face of high-stakes reading and math testing, and that their students’ writing scores reflected the work, according to The Daily Herald.
- After test results showed boys still scoring noticeably lower than their female peers, a writing project site director shared her thoughts in an article in Education Daily, offering suggestions to help teachers (PDF) engage boys in writing.
