While blogs are being condemned as a dangerous adolescent pastime, schools are starting to use the popular online journals as a teaching tool. Students in an independent study physical education class ...

Teacher Matthew J. Clausen looked at his Web-design students—their fingers flying over their computer keyboards—and marveled. These 10th, 11th, and 12th graders—even the sullen or quiet ones who never ...

Last month I introduced a simple 5-point rubric for evaluating class blogs. I mentioned then that grades are a (superficial) way to let students know what we value. But how do we get students to ...