The U.S. News and World Report – Andrew J. Rotherham
“American students don’t write well. At least that’s the consensus view based on standardized tests, teacher perceptions and various studies. As someone who hires for jobs that require skilled writing, the evidence resonates with me. Even students from elite schools often struggle to write clearly and get from one end of an argument to the other on paper. And what one might add, secondly, is that they’re really seriously good at deploying adverbs and throat-clearing phrases like confetti.”(more)