Failing Schools? Record Number of Americans Have Bachelor's Degrees

[saras]

2. I'm tempted to prove you wrong, but I'd get in trouble...

...the way I'd do it is by posting twenty or thirty of the papers I've had to read in the last year or so, by graduating college students. What's missing? Spelling, grammar, syntax, punctuation, vocabulary, logic, rhetorical skills, empathy, research, fact-checking, observational skill, integrity, adventurousness, insight - you know, that stuff.

And the school thinks it's progressive. It really does. I can't understand how the teachers do it - to treat these the same as the genuinely skilled writers who pass through the program, whose skills increase visibly as they work.