Lots of reading here in an archive on The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/debates/education
The link above will take you to a series of articles about teaching writing, published on The Atlantic Online in September and October 2012. Some of the entries include:
A High Tech Solution to the Writing Crisis
What Poetry Teaches Us About the Power of Persuasion
What Aristotle and Stephen Colbert Have in Common
The Best Writing Teachers are Writers Themselves
