Courtney Polidori
COMP 107
12 Dec, 2013 Writing is an important aspect in every day speech and communication. In the class room, it serves as one of the mediums through which we communicate with professors and our peers about a particular subject. In the article “The Writing Revolution”, Peg Tyre explains that placing an overwhelming focus on teaching the basics of analytic writing in virtually every day class by the New Drop High School principal, led to an extraordinary blossoming of students potential across nearly every subject. The introduction of such writing is essential in all schools because it will give rise to effective communication skills, self expression of thought and build confidence that produces guarantee …show more content…
At the same, college –level program classes increase in enrollment. Based on these results, the school was anticipating the a rise in the graduation rate from 63 percent figure from the the time of introducing the new program to 80 percent after its introduction. According to the author, Dennis Walcott, New York City’s school chancellor stated that “To be able to think carefully and express that thinking, it’s where we are going. We are thrilled with what has happened there”. Considering previous results from the Nation Card in 2007, the author argued that schools are graduating students with poor writing skills to work in office, but could be preferable for those students to work on farms or in factories. The choices provided by the author are necessary because nowadays students and parents are considered consumers and they need to be treated with care as a way of encourage them to keep their kids in school, which is a wrong perception from administration. In addition, most administration are not concern about student’s academic progress but their aim is just to receive money from parents. For example, administrations and parents compel teachers to make changes on student’s grades by giving them they