Sep 14 - Test: Most students not proficient in writing

Just a quarter of eighth and 12th grade students in the United States have solid writing skills, even when allowed to use spell-check and other computer word processing tools.

That's according to results from the 2011 National[..]essment of Educational Progress in writing released Friday.

Twenty-four percent of students at each grade level were able to write essays that were well developed, organized and had proper language and grammar. Three percent scored as advanced. The remainder showed just partial mastery of these skills.

Students were given the test by computer for the first time in the nearly four decades the test has been administered. Laptops were brought into public and private schools across the country to gain a nationally representative sample. The results weren't comparable to previous years.

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09-14-2012, 10:56 AM

No !!... thats because those retards type to each other phonetically...

Text messaging made this country !!ing remedial. I can't stand people who type that way, especially women.

09-14-2012, 11:55 AM

Not too surprised, with the text messaging and twitter these kids have a terrible excuse to write like !!.

09-14-2012, 12:12 PM

Originally Posted by regularjoe

No !!... thats because those retards type to each other phonetically...

Text messaging made this country !!ing remedial. I can't stand people who type that way, especially women.

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09-14-2012, 01:25 PM

Originally Posted by regularjoe

No !!... thats because those retards type to each other phonetically...

Text messaging made this country !!ing remedial. I can't stand people who type that way, especially women.

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04:16 PM

Originally Posted by regularjoe

No !!... thats because those retards type to each other phonetically...

Text messaging made this country !!ing remedial. I can't stand people who type that way, especially women.

Sad, but true, some people can't spell nowadays, can't tell the difference between their, they're, there, etc[pic]

09-14-2012, 04:19 PM

spell made me 2 lazy to spell

09-14-2012, 05:02 PM

Originally Posted by ShaquilleBrown

Sad, but true, some people can't spell nowadays, can't tell the difference between their, they're, there, etc[pic]

And let us not forget; your, you're, yours, ur, urs, use... [pic][pic]

09-14-2012, 05:03 PM

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09-14-2012, 05:10 PM

Originally Posted by ShaquilleBrown

Sad, but true, some people can't spell nowadays, can't tell the difference between their, they're, there, etc[pic]

Originally Posted by purtayboi

And let us not forget; your, you're, yours, ur, urs, use... [pic][pic]

should of / would of

09-14-2012, 05:24 PM

[pic] Prince Ea - BACKWARDS RAPPERS - YouTube

09-14-2012, 05:28 PM

*looks at facebook news feed "

sounds about right

09-14-2012, 06:46 PM

Originally Posted by purtayboi

And let us not forget; your, you're, yours, ur, urs, use... [pic][pic]

Exactly[pic]

09-14-2012, 10:02 PM

It's because of this dumb!! "oh we can't have kids thinking they're dumb, everyone is great and can exceed at everything" bull!! attitude that schools push. When you have A LOT of kids graduating from High School who can't barely construct a sentence, you have a problem, yet nobody wants to hold these kids back or do anything to actually make them learn. I'm actually scared for this generation, imagine all these dumb!! kids running everything? Having doctors' who don't know basic math, Lawyers looking up laws on wikipedia and !!.

09-14-2012, 10:29 PM

Originally Posted by One Gud Cide

It's because of this dumb!! "oh we can't have kids thinking they're dumb, everyone is great and can exceed at everything" bull!! attitude that schools push. When you have A LOT of kids graduating from High School who can't barely construct a sentence, you have a problem, yet nobody wants to hold these kids back or do anything to actually make them learn. I'm actually scared for this generation, imagine all these dumb!! kids running everything? Having doctors' who don't know basic math, Lawyers looking up laws on wikipedia and !!.

So lawyers don't use the Internet to look up past cases that may have set a relevant precedent?

With that said, these new misguided educational standards are hitting our youth where it hurts most--in lower income neighborhoods. You cannot measure ones intellect on paper. That's why it's so important to have good teachers, they have to serve as gate keepers since they would know the students better than anyone else. They know how much help that kid needs in something and they know what that kid is proficient in.

I'll never understand why teachers are only paid 40-100k when they play that big of a role in American life.

09-14-2012, 10:57 PM

lol u guys mad or sumtin wusup lol i can spell real good dont mean i need to be all intelligent on boxden nyuccah its not liek im in financial section or da knowledge section b, dis is some ish, ish ish ish ish

09-14-2012, 11:29 PM

Originally Posted by RokkyRok

So lawyers don't use the Internet to look up past cases that may have set a relevant precedent?

With that said, these new misguided educational standards are hitting our youth where it hurts most--in lower income neighborhoods. You cannot measure ones intellect on paper. That's why it's so important to have good teachers, they have to serve as gate keepers since they would know the students better than anyone else. They know how much help that kid needs in something and they know what that kid is proficient in.

I'll never understand why teachers are only paid 40-100k when they play that big of a role in American life.

75% of kids don't know how to write and you're sitting there wondering why teachers are "only" getting 40-100k, with benefits... The average teacher works less and makes more than the average american, yet the kids they teach can barely function. !! it let's give them a raise

09-15-2012, 03:08 AM

comma splices always k!lled me. My !! would be perfect papers other than that.

03:11 AM

Originally Posted by White Face

racistjoe at it again[pic]

Failed attempt at trolling. Nice try though. Try again from one of your other accounts.

09-15-2012, 06:34 AM

so we horrible at math AND writing now?

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