Knock Knock...
"I needa job"
"What is your skill?"
"Duh"
"Sorry, we have no vacancy in that department"
There is no better evidence of the fact that quantity does not equal quality than this; in the age of non-stop texting and tweeting, the younger generation is loosing their writing skill. As a society, it appears that we are headed back to hieroglyphics.
Passing score lowered for FCAT Writing exam
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -The Board of Education decided in an emergency meeting Tuesday to lower the passing grade on the writing portion of Florida's standardized test after preliminary results showed a drastic drop in student passing scores.
Is lowering the difficulty of testing the correct way to deal with this problem?
-fl