A cautionary tale about the fruit No Child Left Behind is now bearing: "A student who takes time to construct a clear topic sentence and a proper conclusion gets no credit for those words. Thus, a teacher might prepare the student to answer those questions in a format that is not good writing by any standard. If, as a teacher, you want your students to do their best, you have to have them practice what is effectively bad writing— no introduction, no conclusion, just hit the points of the rubric and provide the necessary factual support. " The damning legacy of the teaching-to-the-test emphasis in American society will be a generation of students deficient in critical thinking and informative writing skills. And that hurts all of us. washingtonpost/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/02/09/a-warning-to-college-profs-from-a-high-school-teacher/
Posted on: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 14:42:38 +0000
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