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The anxiety of influence
From repeated phrases in stories written by Florida fourth-graders for the state’s Comprehensive Assessment Test, cited by authorities as evidence that teachers had given students sentences or plots to memorize. In one plot, protagonists went “poof” and found themselves in a magical land. The Florida Education Department, which is trying to stop the practice of “template writing,” called these “poof papers.”
One quintessential, supersonic day . . .
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| SEE ALSO: Children's writings, American; Educational tests and measurements; Elementary school teachers; Plagiarism; School prose, American | |
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