Is The Education System failing Students for the future?
The education system for K-12 has failed students for the future. For staters college students. In school, people were told what they learn in K-12 would help them be successful in college. That might have been a lie. The bad idea of writing that was taught in K-12 was that reading was not important too writing. Which is the cause of college students’ problem in college today.
Over the years there has been a debate about the importance or reading to writing etc. Reading is the first step. People cannot write without reading, Reading helps you learn words, meaning, and how to write and build as a writer. Julie Myatt Barger author of “Reading is Not Essential to writing instruction” writes about how over the years reading is not taught enough. The authors Rebecca Moore Howard, Tricia Serviss, and Tanya K. Rodrigue wrote “Writing from sources, Writing from sentences”. The article was about how educators failed students buy not teaching them how to read.How that has caused patch writing and students not being able to fully understand what they read or is writing about.
Students learning
There has been a long argument about reading. The question is, Is reading essential for writing? In the essay “Reading is Not Essential to Writing Instruction” written by Julie Myatt Barger. She argues how reading is not taught enough. “They should know this stuff before they get here!” (Barger 44). Barger quoted that indicting what professors think about college level students. Professors assume that by the time students get to college they have mastered the concept of reading. But in reality previous teachers do not teach what professors believe or expect.
“First, their exists and education culture that privileges testing over sustained and meaningful encounter” (Barger 44). In the educational field of K-12 students are not taught to read for understanding and connecting. They are taught to read to pass test. Test that determines if they move on to the next grade level. The testing that determines if a student is capable of moving on to the next level. This does not only affect the student but also the teachers. “As teachers understandably grew fearful about losing their jobs because of test scores, they devoted class time preparing students for the test rather than developing practice that would help students improve as readers and writers” (Barger 44). This shows how students can not enter college fully prepared because they were only trained to test take instead of learning.
Students taking a test
Rebecca Moore Howard, Tricia Serviss, and Tanya K. Rodrigue authors of “Writing from Sources, Writing from Sentences” educators have failed students. “We began our inquiry with an exploratory hypothesis: that college students, both L1 and L2 writers, patch write.” High school teachers did not teach student the proper way to use another person material. This could lead professors to believe a student is purposely plagiarized, but in reality, it was not taught or corrected in high school. In college plagiarizing can cause a suspension, which is terrible to a college student future.
photo about plagiarism
The fact that reading was not put up to high standards and was only taught for test caused students to not understand how to connect to essays, books, articles, etc. They were trained to look for the questions answers. In the article “Writing from Sources, Writing from Sentences” by Rebecca Moore Howard, Tricia Serviss, and Tanya K. Rodrigue, “Three years after Brown and Day’ s experimental study, Sherrard (1986) asked ten paid undergraduates to alternately summarize or recall seven texts which were ordered randomly. She discovered that their most common method of summarizing is not to combine multiple sentences from the source but to paraphrase a single key sentence.” When test taking a student is taught that the best way to pass is to find the main sentence. The experiment showed how students do not mean steal, plagiarize, etc. from a author’s work. It is the way that best helps them when it comes to testing.
Caught plagiarizing
It is a bad idea for writing to not teach students to read. Reading helps students learn about writing. For example, if a student reads a argumentative essay or research paper they can learn how to give an author the credit that they deserve. Many people learn from seeing and being told. If a student reads, they can see MLA style, APA style, etc. If I student is told to follow the format of what they are reading it can and will better their writing.
Furthermore: Sources for why not teaching reading in K-12 is a bad idea.
https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-sch
All information is from these following sources:
Barger, Julie Myatt. “Reading Is Not Essential to Writing Instruction,” in Bad Ideas About writing. Edited by Cheryl E. Ball and Drew M. Loewe, West Virginia University Libraries Digital Publishing Institute Morgantown, WV, 44-50
https://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu/badideas/
Rebecca Moore Howard, Tricia Serviss, and Tonya K. Rodrigue’s, “Writing from Sources, Writing from Sentences,” Writing and pedagogy 2010, Equinox Publishing.