Stuff I’m hearing about current undergrads is devastating. I haven’t taught in a few years. But the most enthusiastic, bright-eyed bushy-tailed teachers come back to say “they don’t know what a topic sentence is,” “can’t string a series of thoughts together” etc. Is that right?
— Nic Johnson (@TiltingatM3) June 12, 2024
meeting academics from virtually anywhere in the world these days: “how’s the teaching going?” [series of frustrated sighs] “none of them know how to write an essay anymore”
— csz (@cszabla) April 21, 2024
This was the most astonishing thing about teaching freshmen at Cornell this fall: students who had never read anything longer than a reading comprehension excerpt for the SAT. https://t.co/86oL8XBGje pic.twitter.com/p758WqWPxZ
— cpetersen.bsky.social (@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n) February 12, 2024
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jumping ahead, to October.
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