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Subject to Debate
Pollitt, Katha | June 29, 1998 issue

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Colleges in the City University of New York (CUNY) has voted to ban English language courses called Freshman Composition or disguised as English 101, taught for credit at public and private colleges all over the U.S. Students accepted into CUNY will have to pass placement tests in reading, writing and mathematics or be shunted off to remediate themselves at the system's community colleges, which are already overcrowded, or in no-credit summer crash courses, which will cost CUNY millions and do not yet exist. Behind the CUNY reforms is a stereotype of its students as lazy underachievers fluent in Spanglish, Ebonics and welfare fraud, and of CUNY as a no-standards free-for-all, with students taking half their lives to graduate.

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CITY University of New York; ENGLISH language; TRACK system (Education); EDUCATION -- Curricula; NEW York (N.Y.); NEW York (State); UNITED States
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