The conference of the Committee of Ten submitted a report dated 1894 that sounds as though it could have been written today. I have a personal interest in writing across the curriculum and issues of student interest in writing. I believe that more effort needs to be made to promote greater use of written work in disciplines outside of the English department. Reaction to the report in 1894 was overall very positive, as I'm sure it would be if presented again today.
Performance based learning was also referenced in the report over one hundred years ago. Educators then, like now, wanted students to be able to apply learning to their life's work, not simple learn to gather needless information.
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