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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Ilaine who wrote (45963)5/20/2004 10:49:58 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 794159
 
High schools, like politics, are local. It's meaningless to generalize, in my opinion.

Perhaps. But if you sit, year after year, dealing with 18 year olds, starting the college thing, you do begin to notice changes. One that struck me and many of my colleagues was a kind of lagged effect. As the emphasis on writing skills became a core concern in higher education through the 80s and early 90s, it was followed, in a lagged fashion, or at least that was our impression, by the same emphasis in many of our feeder high schools.

That's not to demean the fact that some high schools have always emphasized it nor that some still don't. But the aggregate shift was very distinct.
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