{"id":5924,"date":"2004-06-28T13:58:19","date_gmt":"2004-06-28T20:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/06\/28\/trends-2.html"},"modified":"2004-06-28T13:58:19","modified_gmt":"2004-06-28T20:58:19","slug":"trends_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/28\/trends_2.html","title":{"rendered":"Trends"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why are kids at a prestigious Connecticut private school so worried about the new version of the SAT and it’s essays? Not because of academic training, but because of lack of handwriting <\/i>training<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At Greenwich Country Day, a prestigious Connecticut private school, computers have all but replaced pencil and paper. Typing instruction starts in second grade, and laptops are mandatory by seventh. Essays are typed, and often class notes are, too.
\n“As an adult in today’s work world, you don’t write anything,” said Carol Maoz, head of the upper school (grades 7-9), adding she couldn’t think of an occasion students would write out a longhand essay. “You type everything. There really is no need for proper handwriting.”
\nMaybe not \u2014 indeed, even notes get passed in class via text message these days.
\nBut next spring, many of Country Day’s alumni, along with millions of other high school juniors, will have to write a very important, 25-minute longhand essay \u2014 as part of the new SAT. Nearly as many will write a new optional essay on the ACT.
\nThe new tests are causing general anxiety for the high school class of 2006, guidance counselors report. And some students who think they’ll write a good essay are worried scorers won’t be able to decipher it, raising the question of whether penmanship should be getting more attention in the classroom.<\/p>\n

Heh.<\/p>\n

Perhaps we’ll hear complaints about how the new SAT discrimnates against rich <\/i> (or at least technologically well-endowed) kids.<\/p>\n

The obvious answer is to come up with a computer-based SAT, though that raises a whole different set of questions, so to speak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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