
Dear Sir . . . LMK about WRK
“Professional writing” has vanished from the curriculum, writes Ed Week‘s Sarah D. Sparks. Employers and educators are pushing for students to learn writing skills they’ll need in the workplace. But students don’t even know how to write an email, said Amanda Barker, a Michigan teacher who’s developed a course on professional writing. “The vast majority of my class have never attempted to write email; they only text,” she told Sparks. When students are taught writing, the focu