The Writing Revolution Peg Tyre Analysis

Bobby Kapel
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
improvement in student’s academic achievements. According to the author, the curriculum reform stated when the principal, Deirdre DeAngelis decided to examine the root causes of students failure. In the process, the principal along with her faculty discovered that the student failure was the result of bad writing. To obtain positive result from her survey, she hire educational expert . After gathering students several views according to the author, they concluded that students were unable to express their thoughts into sentences, paragraph and essays. Tyre stated one teacher saying “ You just have to listen to the way the students talked, they rarely communicate in full sentences, much less expressed complex thought”. The author explains that teaching the skills that underlie good analytical writing across nearly evert academic subject started early 2009 as a solution to the problem. As a result of the curriculum reform, the New Drop School students exams score increased with a noticeable pass rate for English and History Regents causing a fall in the school’s Regent –repeater classes from five classes of 35 students to two classes of 20 students.
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
do not deserve. On the other hand, the unwillingness of teachers to give students the right lesson probably because of low salaries or lack of training serve a disease eating up the education system.