Cobb County's scores on the fifth-grade writing test increased five percentage points from 2010, the district announced this week. The 2011 results show 83 percent of Cobb students met or exceeded ...

A writing assignment for fifth-grade students at St. Joseph Catholic School in Manhattan resulted in more than high marks for one student. Samantha Mate, an 11-year-old aspiring writer, had no idea ...

Although Shivani Ganeshan of Arlington Heights is only in seventh grade, she not only has her first fantasy novel published, but classmates are asking her for a sequel. She's something of a celebrity ...

Effingham County's fifth graders logged the highest mean scale score ever for the district on the fifth-grade writing assessment. Students taking the test this spring scored 216, exceeding the state ...