“Most fourth graders spend less than three hours a week writing, which is about 15 percent of the time they spend watching television. Seventy-five percent of high school seniors never get a writing assignment from their history or social studies teachers.|And in most high schools, the extended research paper, once a senior-year rite of passage, has been abandoned because teachers do not have time to grade it anymore.” Tamar Lewin
—Writing in Schools is Found Both Dismal and NeglectedNY Times)
One more for the “That Explains a Lot” file.
Similar:
How to Disagree Academically: Using Graham's "Disagreement Hierarchy" to organize a colleg...
Dr. David von Schlichten honors the spectrum of motivations (not always financial) feature...
Journalist flexes in story about Trump Media accountant who has spelled his own name 14 di...
This is what the techbros are excited about? Really?
“Save the date for the 2024 eclipse,” the young teacher told his students back in 1978. De...
Crying Myself to Sleep on the Biggest Cruise Ship Ever