English Prof: ‘My Students Can’t Write to Save Their Lives’
Oct 6, 2016 by Intellectual Takeout
Here’s why.
When students in a maximum security prison education program beat out West Point cadets in a debate competition a while back, the story made headlines because of its almost man-bites-dog nature.
West Point debate coach Adam Scher recently responded to the phenomenon in an opinion piece for The Washington Post. As Scher implies, debate competitions are not necessarily to show the other team up, but to build confidence and inspire thinking in the minds of all students:
http://www.educationviews.org/english-prof-my-students-cant-write-save-lives/
