High School English: A Waste of Time?

Sometimes, while Kim Brooks is grading essays by her college composition students, she cries. “Not real tears, exactly—more a spontaneous, guttural sob, often loud and unpleasant enough to startle my husband or children,” she writes in Salon . Why? Because many of these students “simply … cannot write.” They don’t have…

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High School English: A Waste of Time?

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