Failure To (Teach) Writing

A new report says that writing is not being well-taught in American schools. “The commission’s report asserts that writing is among the most important skills students can learn, that it is the mechanism through which they learn to connect the dots in their knowledge — and that it is now woefully ignored in most American schools. Writing, always time-consuming for student and teacher, is today hard-pressed in the American classroom. Of the three R’s, writing is clearly the most neglected.”