Only 47percentt of fourth graders passed the single-essay test, down from 69percentthehe previous year; 63percentt of seventh graders received passing scores, a decline of 10 percentage points.
Regrettably, Mr Gardner does not mention the best single essay on Carroll, Hugh Haughton's introduction to the Penguin Classics edition of Alice in Wonderland, but in almost all other matters he is encyclopedic.
I thought that the two chefs, brought together in a single essay, would outline the two poles, the extreme cases, the yin and yang, if you like, of contemporary cooking: the two sides of the dinner plate, each pursued fanatically to its logical end.
They found that 4-8 multiple-choice items provided the same amount of information as a single essay, and that the essay's efficiency in providing information about the candidate's ability per minute of testing was less than 10% of that of an average multiple-choice item.
He was an incisive, sometimes dizzyingly erudite writer about his own work and that of others, sweeping from Egyptian funerary practices to Penthouse letters in the space of a single essay.
What is downright dismaying, though, is the fact that not a single essay in this book is written by someone currently working within the banking or investment banking industry.
Prior to BLM issue, Journal of Political Philosophy had "not published a single essay on the philosophy of race".
In "Sailing Toward the Sunset," she writes, "My verbal skill, such as it is, originated not in a habit of speaking, but in a lifetime spent preparing a single essay . . . on the subject 'Why are you crying?' " That passage is autobiographical.
A zillion or two zillion years ago, I reviewed a volume of essays by poet David Mason for the San Francisco Chronicle – but I haven't read a single essay of his since then (though I have read some of his poetry, which I'll save for a separate post).
Hazlitt, who seems to have had little acquaintance with Morgann's work, is careful never to lose sight of Falstaff's status as a character in a play —three plays, in fact, though the two parts of Henry IV are examined in a single essay.
Second, our course had only 41 students, and they answered a single essay question each day we did testing during the unit.
