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Feb

1

2010

The Canadian Press: Students failing because of Twitter, texting and no grammar teaching

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For years there's been a flood of anecdotal complaints from professors about what they say is the wretched state of English grammar coming from some of their students.
Almost a third of those students are failing.
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- the failure rate has jumped five percentage points in the past few years, up to 30 per cent from 25 per cent.
- Some students in public schools are no longer being taught grammar, she believes.
- Emoticons, happy faces, sad faces, cuz, are just some of the writing horrors being handed in, say professors and administrators at Simon Fraser.
  "Little happy faces ... or a sad face ... little abbreviations," show up even in letters of academic appeal, says Khan Hemani.
- The Internet norm of ignoring punctuation and capitalization as well as using emoticons may be acceptable in an email to friends and family, but it can have a deadly effect on one's career if used at work.
- "These folks are going to short-change themselves, and right or wrong, they're looked down upon in traditional corporations," notes Postman.

May

11

2009

Failure not an option for some Ontario teachers

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Apr

26

2009

Teacher begins petition to change no-fail policy

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'No-fail' policy reflects a broken system

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Mar

25

2008

Skyrocketing Failure Rates Under Investigation - The Iron Warrior

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