Here’s another article about the need to require students to write longer research papers in order to boost their critical thinking skills and prepare them for college. As long as our classes remain so large and our curriculum requirements remain as extensive, teachers in the future will probably decrease the number of writing assignments they require instead of increasing them. Oh, what we could accomplish if we had control over our curriculum and only 20 students in a class!
Coming to terms with the effects of no longer requiring long papers
