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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

You Can’t Bubble Literacy … A College Freshman Calls Out Standardized Testing for What It Is. « Continuing Change

You Can’t Bubble Literacy … A College Freshman Calls Out Standardized Testing for What It Is. « Continuing Change:


You Can’t Bubble Literacy … A College Freshman Calls Out Standardized Testing for What It Is.

I blog alot. This blog,  entitled  ”You Can’t Bubble Literacy”  was written by a college freshman. No doubt it will be the blog that makes me the most proud. Why? Simple.
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This blog was written by my daughter: 
“Christina Haas and Linda Flower’s Reading Strategies and Construction of Meaning tackles the question: What makes a ‘good’ reader? Their results show that experienced, graduate-level readers tend to be more rhetorical in their reading approach, going beyond “knowledge-getting” (136) reading and more into the territory of in-depth analysis.
However, the question always remains: Who’s fault is it? Why, as college freshmen, are