CB>"The most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress found that 
CB>only 38% of the nation's 12th graders could provide adequate written 
CB>responses to passages they were asked to read.  Only 12 percent provided 
CB>elaborated responses on age appropriate writing tasks."
What I'm about to tell you comes, I'm sure, as no surprise,
but it sort of floored me seeing it firsthand... I start off
my year with the usual overview, "suggestions" as to what I
expect, etc....  I show them a double-entry notetaking
system and emphasize how important it is to learn and/or
review each day's work each evening...  Anyway, I asked them
if they have ever had teachers who put notes up on the
overhead and had the students simply copy the notes.  I know
that the pressure to have kids learn the material for a 
course, plus the natural desire to "help" them, sometimes
leads to this step (which I've always opposed because they
should ALSO be learning notetaking skills), but I was
unprepared for the response - 100%!  Now this is physics,
so we're figuring the top 20% of the student population
here, and at least some of their teachers found it necessary
to take notes FOR them!  Amazing, don't you think?
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