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>April 26, 2003
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>Writing in Schools Is Found Both Dismal and Neglected
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>By TAMAR LEWIN
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>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.
>Those are among the findings of a report issued yesterday by the
>National Commission on Writing in America's Schools and Colleges,
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 11:02:10 -0700
From: "Charles Bazerman" <[log in to unmask]>
The full report is even more interesting than suggested by this
article. This appears to be a major initiative to advance K-12
writing, with large implications for the students you will be
receiving. For those of you with connections with the schools the
initiatives set in motion by this report may provide many
opportunities. Spread the Word. Chuck Bazerman
From Saturday's New York Times. Full report at
http://www.writingcommission.org/
P.S., I'm leaving for Ottawa tom'w, so if you too happen to be heading
there . . . .
Rick
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