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National Writing Project

The program's purpose is to promote K-16 teacher training and professional development in the area of writing. The Project consists of one national office and a network of local sites through which teachers have access to training, professional development, and current research about the teaching of writing.

Rating

What This Rating Means

NOT PERFORMING
Results Not Demonstrated

A rating of Results Not Demonstrated (RND) indicates that a program has not been able to develop acceptable performance goals or collect data to determine whether it is performing.
  • This program is redundant of other Federal and local efforts to improve writing instruction. States and local school districts receive over $3 billion annually in teacher training funding from the Department of Education that may be used to support professional development for teachers.
  • It is not currently possible to determine program effectiveness. While there have been two major program evaluations that attempted to examine program outcomes, neither study included a comparison group of teachers who do not receive project funding. Without this unit of comparison, it is not possible to draw meaningful conclusions about program effectiveness.
  • The program lacks annual and long-term performance measures, targets, and data. The program does not measure the impact of its teacher training in improving teacher effectiveness and/or student learning.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Developing performance metrics that measure, as directly as possible, the impact of program services on teacher effectiveness and/or student learning.
  • Creating a program evaluation strategy, along with a schedule for an independent program evaluation, to obtain reliable program outcome information.
  • Working with Congress to terminate this duplicative program.

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