Check out this article from the USA Today that was brought to my attention at our faculty meeting yesterday and I found it rather interesting, or maybe more alarming:
Most alarming are these main comments about the incoming freshman into collage:
40% of students were not able to use the correct adverb or adjective form in a sentence, use the correct preposition in a phrase or make sure that the subject and verb agree in a sentence.
•30% were unable to evaluate the contribution that significant details make to a text as a whole.
•Nearly 40% could not solve multi-step problems involving fractions and percentages.
•40% could not predict the results of an additional trial of a scientific experiment.
Oh the future of America...
For my friends and family who like to keep up with the life of the Zack's...
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I'm trying to find a graceful way to point out spelling errors in a post with student acumen as the topic.
I have worked with the Youth at our church for the past 4 years and it amazes me that they all seem to use 'text talk' when they type now.
And you wonder why I think about homeschooling?!?!?!
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