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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

The Old College Lie � The Quick and the Ed

The Old College Lie � The Quick and the Ed

Over the weekend the Dallas Morning News ran a well-reported but gut-wrenching story about high school graduates unprepared for college-level work:
Nelda Contreras stood at the whiteboard and wrote: I like bananas and apples.
“Does this sentence need a comma?” she asked her students.
No, they said.
Next, she wrote: I like bananas apples and grapes.