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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!paladin.american.edu!auvm!UTXVM.BITNET!SLATIN
  3. Message-ID: <MBU-L%92123008263568@TTUVM1.BITNET>
  4. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.mbu-l
  5. Date:         Wed, 30 Dec 1992 08:25:00 CST
  6. Sender:       "Megabyte University (Computers & Writing)" <MBU-L@TTUVM1.BITNET>
  7. From:         SLATIN@UTXVM.BITNET
  8. Subject:      RE: High school/college comp cou
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  11. Hold on a minute-- I just caught something I'd missed earlier.  If indeed
  12. "high schools set the expectations" for college-level comp courses, it seems
  13. to me we have a problem.  No disrespect intended for those high school
  14. teachers reading this list, but wouldn't it make more sense to flip things
  15. around, with college-level people working *with* K-12 to define expectations
  16. all the way up the line?  I don't mean micromanagement, and I don't
  17. necessarily mean that expectations should be formalized and set in
  18. bureaucratic or curricular concrete; nor do mean we should get ourselves into
  19. some teleological mess.   Hell, what *do* I mean?  Just that something seems
  20. out of whack if the high schools are determining the college curriculum.
  21. Maybe I'm being naive, though, so I'll shut up.
  22.  
  23. John Slatin
  24. UT Austin
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