CCSS, Anyone?
The Common Core State Standards movement is being allowed to propagate unchecked like the cancer that it is. But there is ample evidence of what the inevitable conclusion of this insanity will produce.
From The Telegraph (U.K.):
Bright students 'cannot write essays', say Cambridge dons
Some key excerpts:
From The Telegraph (U.K.):
Bright students 'cannot write essays', say Cambridge dons
Some key excerpts:
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"Robert Tombs, professor of history at St John's College, Cambridge, warned that students were 'drilled into writing' in a formulaic manner between the age of 11 and 18, leaving them unable to articulate their ideas on degree courses."
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"One of the things that one notices in student essays is how much damage has been done by the
