May 16, 2003

Teaching Grammar Doesn't Lead to Better Writing

By DENNIS BARON

The ACT reported recently that college professors rank grammar as the most important skill for students entering college, while high-school teachers consider it the least important. The ACT thinks that this gulf between high college expectations and inadequate high-school instruction explains why almost 20 percent of first-year college students take a remedial writing course, and it will use that information to design an optional writing test that will be added to the ACT Assessment in

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