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You've pretty much named all the major proteins. If you don't want to eat dairy, nuts, or beans you need to eat meat.
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Abigail serves as founding Director of Antioch University New England's Center for Academic Innovation, co-director of Antioch's Center for Climate Preparedness and Community Resilience, and as faculty in the Department of Environmental Studies, where she directs the Advocacy master's degree concentration. Her public engagement, research, and teaching focuses on change leadership and translating values into effective action. This year, she is serving on the leadership team for the April 2016 Local Solutions: Eastern Regional Climate Preparedness Conference, convened by Antioch in partnership with U.S. EPA, to build the capacity of local decision-makers. She enjoys the spirit and practice of innovation and has played a central role in piloting AUNE's Conservation Psychology Institute and Translating Research to Inform Policy workshops and in catalyzing a national-level working group to build the capacity of scientists and researchers to engage with the public policy process. Previously, she was program director for the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights and New Hampshire Citizens Alliance, principal of ActionWorks, and a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law School's Human Rights Program. Those experiences continue to inform and inspire her teaching and practice. Abigail delights in making sense of challenging situations, and has brought this capacity to serving as a commentator for The Washington Post, The New York Times, National Public Radio, "Democracy Now!" and "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer," among other media outlets.
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- You are permitted to add accessories.
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A link back to my DA page or the lineart page is preferred
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- You are not permitted to redistribute the lineart file in it's raw form in any way.
- You are permitted to use the linearts on: DeviantART, Fur Affinity and ChickenSmoothie without asking. You MUST ask permission before using them on any other sites (this section is subject to updates).
- You are not permitted to use any species linearts on adoptable websites. All species must remain independent of any project. They are for everyone to use, you may not tie them to an adoptable agency in any way.
- All the species I make in free to use or pay to use linearts all live on EARTH unless stated otherwise. You may not make up your own species information.
- By using any species lineart you agree to following the official reference sheet made by myself.
- You may sell adoptables using my linearts for any currency, including DApoints, USD, GBP, etc, etc, etc. I don't mind at all.
If you have any questions please ask them in the comments section. Thank you <3
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May I sell some through there as well?
I noticed I've been getting lately some points with a friend's collab, on another side thanks to your lines/bases and on another side with my own adopts, soooo it was time to buy some bases :3 now let's hope I can sell some adopties.
I hope those points also help you! (I think I bought 5 or so? lol)
And one day maybe when I get even more bases from you I may be able to do a small batch to send you the points as a small thank you :3 (this is a future plan, I just hope it works)
it always says opening canvas failed ;-;
Breaks keypad pressing the purchase button repeatidly
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tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:/projects/233271690/thumbtiles/posts Kickstarter: thumbtiles 2012-10-17T07:32:11-04:00 tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/330208 2012-10-17T08:06:53-04:00 2012-10-17T08:06:53-04:00 Feedback
What do you think?

Questions, comments, photos (more photos!), please keep them coming either here on Kickstarter or via Facebook (/thumbtiles), Twitter (@thumbtiles), or Email (firstname.lastname@example.com).

And for those waiting to order more, the store is now open: thumbtiles.com.

Thanks for letting me do this thing. It's been quite a journey. Happy to have been on it with you!

Steve

p.s. Some beautiful work from these fine folks:

@tuckerstevenson
 Ken Bosma
Joy Watson
@BigBonkura
Jim Cook
 tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/317009 2012-09-27T04:34:26-04:00 2012-09-27T04:34:27-04:00 Ship
Shipping is underway. If you haven't received a notification that your tiles have shipped just yet, expect it shortly. And if you've yet to submit the address survey, please do. I'll get your shipment set up right away.

Thank you!

Steve
 tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/302063 2012-09-05T00:08:39-04:00 2012-09-05T00:08:39-04:00 Update
The tiles have arrived in New York! They've just been released by customs and are on the move again. It'll be a short trip to the distribution warehouse in Philadelphia where they will be checked in and prepared for delivery to you. I'll be sending around the address survey as soon as they are safely at the warehouse. Stay tuned.

Steve
 tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/271401 2012-07-20T13:34:29-04:00 2012-07-20T13:34:30-04:00 Update
Hi Everyone,

A few final packing shots to show you. As things have gone, there were some last minute packing changes and the tiles didn't get out of the factory door as quickly as planned. Very sorry for the additional delay. The packs are in their travel cartons now and will be on their way early next week. Many thanks for your continued patience.

Steve
 tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/257632 2012-06-30T12:29:43-04:00 2012-06-30T12:29:43-04:00 Update
Really pleased with the way it's come together. The folks here are a solid team and have shown an impressive commitment to the project.

I wasn't certain it was necessary to be in China throughout the production process but in the end discovered it to be essential. Stuff goes wrong. Questions come up. Details need to be clarified. So much easier to do when you're right there. And watching the pieces being shaped, holding them at different stages of the process, is something worth being around for.

The tiles will be leaving for the States on the 4th of July. It will be a month to get to the distribution warehouse in Philadelphia. Once there, they'll quickly be turned around to you.

Watch your email for a Kickstarter survey coming in a couple of weeks that will ask for your mailing address.

Thanks again.

Steve
 tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/246042 2012-06-14T00:41:01-04:00 2013-10-12T12:17:33-04:00 Update

 1. First light
 2. Factory on the right, factory dorms on the left
 3. The cut tiles
 4. The edge cleaner
 5. One side smooth
 6. Cutting the wood pads
 7. Parking

They're looking great. We're on target to have these finished here at the end of June. I'll post more photos as things progress.

Steve
 tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/237788 2012-05-31T14:46:25-04:00 2012-05-31T14:46:25-04:00 Update
Production has begun. I'll be in Shenzhen on the 4th of June and will remain until the product is complete and bound for the US at the end of the month. If you're interested, I'm happy to grab a few photos and share them with you as it all comes together.

Thanks again everyone. I know it's been a long time coming but I'm really excited to get these to you.

Steve
 tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/218943 2012-05-01T23:35:15-04:00 2012-05-01T23:35:15-04:00 Update

Hi Everyone.

Sorry for the time between updates. I've been holding off because I wanted to have these to show you. Suffice it to say that small wood and magnet pieces are not a specialty of a lot of factories. They've been a real fight. But when you get it you know it. They came out great.

Now, for the rest.

The acrylic tiles, the heart of this thing, look fantastic. They'll be produced at a factory near Shenzhen. This is a change from my previous plan but it was necessary when it became clear the first supplier wasn't going to be able to pull off the rest of the project. Sometimes best to cut your losses.

The product will also be assembled and packaged at the same Shenzhen factory, also a change. Stepping into this the first time it's hard to trust the full deal to someone, but why not? Mostly a matter of loosening up some. The packaging has been designed and I am finalizing decisions about the package materials.

The Glue Dots will be shipped from Wisconsin to Shenzhen to be included in the package. It's an odd thing to have to do. Glue Dots has a presence in China but for whatever reason it's less costly to have them produced and shipped from the US. The same may be true of the polycarbonate backing though I'm looking into further options for that.

Finally, the trademark is registered, and my travel visa is ready. We will be moving into production shortly and I will be there for that.

Thanks again for your support. Stayed tuned as things get busy.

Steve

..

 tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/186088 2012-03-07T00:19:53-05:00 2012-03-07T00:19:53-05:00 Update

Hi Everyone. A few quick updates on the tiles.

Things are moving along well now. I've found a capable supplier for the acrylic squares, located just west of Shanghai. We've been steadily refining the production process and nearly have the pieces where they need to be. I've selected a high grade acrylic imported from Japan and it looks beautiful.

The wood pads are coming as well. I'm waiting on another iteration and will have more to say about these.

China is not a place where things get done right the first time around. For a perfectionist it is maddening. But their strength is their persistence. They've been right there willing to work to meet tough standards.

I appreciate that we're all anxious to get these in our hands. If you can allow me a bit longer to bring them around, we're getting to something good.

Thanks again for your support.

 tag:www.kickstarter.com,2008-10-09:Post/172457 2012-02-09T00:39:58-05:00 2012-02-09T00:39:59-05:00 Update
After an extended break for the Chinese New Year, manufacturing in China has fired up again and things are moving forward once more. I've been in touch with many many suppliers there to this point and I'm now in the process of narrowing these to the best options.

There's a wild abundance of manufacturing overseas and wide differences in how they do business. Some get you samples the very next day at no charge. Lots are most interested in short term gains and will play any relationship for whatever they can. More than a few are working scams full time. It's nothing like a simple or smooth process, but I've found good help from pros who've been through it a few times.

It turns out I will also be sourcing a portion of the tile assembly from suppliers right here in the States. As it stands now, the acrylic, magnet, and wood components will be coming from China, while the polycarbonate backing and the Glue Dots will come from the US. I will also be bringing it all together here once the different pieces arrive.

Things still look on target for a spring release. Thanks for sticking with me through this learning process.


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Work in Progress by Lidias93Watch
©2012-2016 Lidias93
My new drawing!
I haven't finished it yet. I think, that it don't work out me in this format, I hope that background improve this.
I used graphite pencils.
Lidia Springer ART
I haven't finished it yet. I think, that it don't work out me in this format, I hope that background improve this.
I used graphite pencils.
Lidia Springer ART
Don't add a background. This is much better than adding a background.
Work in progress..? I'd say be careful what you add because I don't know if you can make this any better, it seems perfect just the way it is. Very nice!
So good!
Just... Wow!
You're an insanely good pencil artist. The thing I've been working up to. O.o
You're an insanely good pencil artist. The thing I've been working up to. O.o
When I first saw it I thought: How did she manage that Photo without any background? Not even the slightest hint of a wall meeting the floor or roof! Then I read your description and was even more astonished.
im ok *****
DAMMMNNNNN LIDIA you did that im ok with drawing realistic things i did a cat on my page if you want to check it out im of but if i had to try this it will be a while for me to finish lol my area is cartoons but i think i should work on realistic stuff also nice Lidia my fav for real
thank you for fav very nice cat. I think that you on a good way You have to more practice, drawing a realistic cat can be a little difficult. Try maybe draw a easy pictures people or with pictures digital art
Very nice details.
I'd like to see the final drawing
I'd like to see the final drawing
looks finished to me
very nice work
Nice work!
Really great backlighting and proportions. What's left to be done? Looks fantastic!
This is really awesome!!
Impressive work!
Great work, Lidia.
wow excellent, looks like a bright light is shining in.
Oh my god, it's amazing Absolutley beautiful. <3
And she's so cool xD
And she's so cool xD
Really good and i'm not so sure you should add a background to this... it might actually "take away" something from the drawing, but thats just my opinion
Looks fantastic to me as is........
nice drawing. I like it
thumbs up!
That's an awesome drawing !!
Great! Looking forward the finished picture.
That's Excellent!
so cute who is the girl
WOW!! This is AMAZING!! You're like... GIFTED WITH EPICNESS XD
Beautiful girl and fantastic drawing
This is amazing. What pencils do you use?
Thank you I use Derwent pencil B and automatic pencil 2B 0,5mm
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In the election of 2008, Republicans operated from the beginning under a profound handicap. While the Democrats appealed to specific, well-organized constituencies with the prospect of taxpayer money and bureaucratic favor, the GOP tried to make arguments in behalf of the common good and the general welfare. For many voters, the prospect of short-term gain ("free" health care, subsidized college tuition, and even federal pre-school) trumped any concerns over national security, long term deficits or bureaucratic bloat.
How can the GOP hope to overcome the semi-permanent edge for a rival party that bases its appeal on promises of instant assistance to major chunks of the American electorate?
Following the Republican takeover of both houses of Congress in 1994, the conservatives made a conscious, concerted attempt effort to build a permanent governing majority based on interests and not just values. Anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist, House leader Tom Delay, lobbyist Jack Abramoff and others launched "the K Street Project" --- an ambitious plan to align major industries and lobbying concerns with the Republican Party in the same way that organized labor, teachers, social workers and trial lawyers became permanently bonded with the Democrats. The effort to expand the party's base and raise unlimited funds through the prospect of constituent gain brought notable election victories for the Republicans but also led directly to the lavish spending on "earmarks" and other dubious appropriations that represented the most conspicuous failing of the Bush administration. When it comes to federal activism or sweeping new initiatives, no party of small government and constitutional limits can hope to compete with its welfare state opponents without sacrificing its credibility and its very soul. In part, the GOP effort to out-do the Democrats in pandering and the service of special interests led directly to the disastrous Congressional defeats of 2006, and to the difficult campaign season of 2008.
The Republicans can only return to a position as the dominant party if some sense of international peril, some imminent and undeniable threat, forces the electorate to focus more on the fate of the country as a whole above the prospect of instantaneous advantages for particular constituencies.
In the last 60 years, Republicans only won electoral majorities and captured the White House from Democrats when Americans found themselves at war. In 1952, the great general Dwight Eisenhower took power from Harry Truman with the U.S. mired in a Korean conflict that the Democrats seemed powerless to win. Richard Nixon took over from Lyndon Johnson in 1968 at the very height of a profoundly bloody Vietnam conflict that claimed hundreds of American lives every week with no end in sight. In 1980, Ronald Reagan beat Jimmy Carter only after the abject failure of a military expedition to rescue our hostages in Iran, and humiliating Soviet advances in Central America, Africa and Afghanistan. In the election of 2000, George W. Bush sought to oust the Democrats during a time of relative international peace and, predictably, lost to Al Gore in the popular vote. Four years later, with the United States engaged in two costly wars and determinedly facing down the threat of Islamo-Nazi terror, he won a far more clear- cut popular and electoral vote victory.
In the same time period that Republicans seized control from Democrats only at moments of international crisis, Democrats drove out Republicans only at times of relative global calm when promises of self-interested gain could resonate without shame among the electorate. Kennedy replaced Nixon in 1960 only after Eisenhower's restrained and steady leadership led to a relative lull in the Cold War, giving voters the chance to cast their ballots on promises of Medicare for seniors and other big government programs. Carter took over from Ford and Nixon after Americans had withdrawn from Vietnam, Nixon had brought softening relations with both China and Russia, and Kissinger and Nixon had helped the world survive the horribly dangerous Middle Eastern War of 1973. Most famously, Bill Clinton turned out George H.W. Bush with the slogan "The Economy, Stupid!" after the triumphant conclusion of both the Cold war and the first Gulf War gave the public the luxury of ignoring international issues.
Obviously, the campaign of 2008 bears far more resemblance to the "promise-them-anything," domestically-focused elections of 1960, 1976, 1992 and 2000, than to the war-torn, face-down-the-international-threat electoral battles of 1952, 1968, 1980 and 2004. All the polls show that voters placed national security and terrorism far down their lists of priorities this year. The success of the Bush-McCain surge strategy drove the Iraq war off the front pages, with American and Iraqi casualties reaching a new low in the month of October. After seven years of safety from major terrorist attacks, not even disturbing news from Afghanistan could divert the electorate's attention from the huge new governmental initiatives proposed by Barack Obama to benefit his various supporters.
John McCain and his advisors picked an appropriate slogan when they came up with the phrase "Country First." Those two words neatly contrast the Republican emphasis on lasting values and long-term security with the Democratic preference for feel-good, immediate gratification initiatives to pay off the party's hungry and demanding special interests. The final results will indicate whether the people saw the current global economic crisis as serious enough to warrant transcending narrow advantage for the sake of the Republic at large, and placing the security of the national whole above politically popular efforts at pleasing one party's favored parts.


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Only two weeks left to see this up and coming local band play free before they release their first full length album Moving On.
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Himalayan Trust
|Sir Edmund Hillary
|Founded at
|New Zealand,
|International organization
|Registration no.
|Poverty eradication, disaster relief,
|New Zealand
Area served
|Solukhumbu district, Nepal
|Dr Mike Gill
|The Himalayan Trust works to empower communities and reduce poverty in the Everest region of Nepal
The Himalayan Trust is an international non-profit humanitarian organisation first established in the 1960s by Sir Edmund Hillary, who led the trust until his death in 2008.[1] The Himalayan Trust aims to improve the health, education and general wellbeing of people living in the Solukhumbu district. The Himalayan Trust is headquartered in New Zealand where it is a registered charity through the Charities Commission. The Trust has charitable and donee status and is a member of the Council for International Development (CID).
Recent activities[edit]
In 2013, a water and sanitation project was launched in Lukla to enable all residents of the village to have access to fresh, running water and to establish a fire-fighting system. This was established by Lukla residents and the Himalayan Trust provided 50 percent of the funding. In 2015, the project was successfully completed.
In April 2014, the avalanche on Mount Everest killed 16 Nepalese guides. The Trust immediately set up a fund[2] to support the families of those killed in the disaster, and to date, along with The Himalayan Trust organisation in the United Kingdom, has raised NZ $83,000. Funds raised support a scholarship programme for the children of the victims.
The Himalayan Trust also provides ongoing support for schools in the Solukhumbu region. 67 schools receive educational resources, and the teachers from all the high schools receive specialist curriculum training. Furthermore, teachers from 12 schools receive training in English medium teaching and there is an academic scholarships programme open to all students in the region.
Organisational structure[edit]
The Himalayan Trust operates from New Zealand. It maintains a small staff, preferring to work through partnerships with local NGOs in Nepal, such as The Himalayan Trust Nepal and has a focus on capacity building.
A Board of Directors, which includes Sir Edmund Hillary's son, Peter Hillary, meets regularly to approve strategic plans and budgets and determine policy. The current chairperson is Dr Michael Gill. The Board is made up of eight members who are elected every two years by the Trust membership.
A large proportion of their funds come from donations from New Zealanders as well ongoing support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Aid Programme.
|Sir Edmund Hillary establishes the Himalayan Trust
|Khumjung school is built
|Pangboche and Thami school built.
|First landing at Lukla airstrip after built by the Trust
|Khunde hospital opens
|Salleri High school built.
|Phaplu hospital opens
|Karikola Middle school built
|Local Sherpa, Kami Temba takes charge at Khunde hospital
|Lukla water project completed.
|Everest Avalanche Appeal launched.
In 1960, Sir Edmund Hillary was in the Everest region leading an expedition studying high altitude physiology. At a high camp one night he asked Sirdar Urkien what, above all, would he like for his children and the Sherpa people. …Urkien asked for a school in his village of Khumjung. By 1961 the first school was built in the Khumbu region of Nepal, as the first major project of the Himalayan Trust.
Ed wrote: The opening ceremony was a remarkable occasion. Surrounded by clouds and fog with frequent showers of rain, the villagers celebrated the important occasion with great enthusiasm. The following year Ed received requests for two more schools, one from Thame and one from Pangboche. The letter from Thame read:
27 October 1962
Respected Bara Sahib Sir Edmund Hillary
We the local people, the Sherpas of Thame, Khumbu, came to know that your honour, helping us in all respects, is going to open some more schools in Khumbu. So we Thame people are requesting your honour to open a school at Thame just like Khumjung. Though our children have eyes but still they are blind! So all we Sherpas of Thame are praying your honour to make our children just like those of Khumjung. We hope your honour may consider our prayer.
Chewang Rimpi Sherpa
Thak Noori Sherpa
Kinken Kang Sherpa
Khunjo Chumbi Sherpa[3]
Both schools were completed in 1963 along with other Himalayan Trust projects. These included building a pipeline to bring Khumjung's water from its source in Khumbila to a reservoir in the village as well as running a smallpox immunization programme. The programme resulted in more than 3,000 people being vaccinated, with the result that the outbreak was limited to a few dozen people and about twenty deaths.[4]
The Trust ended up building 26 schools in total over a period of 30 years. These schools were initially staffed and funded through the Trust until 1972 when the government took over the administration of all schools and education in the area. The Trust has a formal agreement with the Nepalese Government to continue to provide teaching resources and support to schools within the Solukhumbu Region.
By 1964, it was clear to Edmund Hillary that the transport of building materials needed to be easier, so the Himalayan Trust built an airstrip. The site chosen was beside the tiny village of Lukla, now the second busiest airstrip in Nepal. That year, aid projects also included a school in Namche and a bridge over the rough waters of the Dudh Kosi.
In 1966 the Himalayan Trust built a small hospital at Khunde. The building of Phaplu Hospital followed in 1975. Both hospitals were staffed by volunteer doctors from New Zealand and Canada working for periods of two years. Eventually both hospitals were handed over to local doctors – Phaplu to Dr Mingmar Gyelzen in 1982, and Khunde to Dr Kami Temba in 2001.[5]
Notable affiliated persons[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- Gill, Michael (2011). Himalayan Hospitals. Potton & Burton. ISBN 9781877517433..
- Johnson, Alexa (2007). Sir Edmund Hillary: An Extraordinary Life. Penguin. ISBN 9780143006466..
- Hillary, Sir Edmund (2000). View from the Summit: The Remarkable Memoir by the First Person to Conquer Everest. Gallery Books. ISBN 978-0743400671..
- Hillary, Sir Edmund (1965). Schoolhouse in the Clouds. Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 0743400674..
- ^ "Obituary: Sir Edmund Hillary". BBC News. Retrieved 11 January 2008.
- ^ "Himalayan Trust looks to help sherpa families after Mt Everest Avalanche". 3 News.
- ^ Hillary, Edmund (1965). Schoolhouse in the Clouds. Hodder & Stoughton. p. 3. ISBN 0743400674.
- ^ Hillary, Edmund (1965). Schoolhouse in the Clouds. Hodder & Stoughton. p. 5. ISBN 0743400674.
- ^ Gill, Michael (2011). Himalayan Hospitals. Potton & Burton.
External links[edit]
- Himalayan Trust
- On top of the world: Ed Hillary Full biography of Edmund Hillary (NZHistory.net.nz)
- Edmund Hillary biography from the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
- Videos (10) from Archives New Zealand
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We Are Teaching High School Students to Write Terribly
The many problems of the SAT's essay section.
Whether verifiably true facts, or an argument that supports a position one actually believes in, are among those necessary components is unclear. What if, for instance, a student comes across an essay prompt that she has a strong opinion about, but can think of better arguments for the opposing position? "The positive side to writing what you believe is that you are more likely to be enthusiastic and passionate," Gruenwald says. "The ideas may come more smoothly. You may be able to make a very compelling argument. But if you find that there is the side you agree with, but then there is the side that you can come up with a list of really good points for, take the side that you can come up with the list of really good points for. That's just good demonstration. Because what you are trying to do is demonstrate that you have the writing competency to succeed at the college level. That's not really dependent upon your opinion of the subject." And, he admits, "It's not even related to your grasp of the facts, necessarily."
For university educators like Perelman and Gere, such realities become part of a trickle-down-type problem. Because of the great importance students, parents, and college admissions officers place on the SAT—as well as the large sums of money that many families spend on outside test prep—high school writing instructors are placed in a bind. "Teachers are under a huge amount of pressure from parents to teach to the test and to get their kids high scores," Perelman says. They sometimes have to make a choice, he adds, between teaching writing methods that are rewarded by SAT essay-readers—thereby sending worse writers out into the world—or training pupils to write well generally, at the risk of parent complaints about their kids not being sufficiently prepared for the SAT. "And sometimes when they get that pushback, that means they don't get a promotion, or get a lower raise. So it actually costs them to be principled. You're putting in negative incentives to be good teachers."
Gere says the end result of that dynamic shows up when students arrive at college. "I think it's a very large problem, one that I'm concerned about, and one that we deal with a lot here," she adds. "What happens is in first-year writing, the typical pattern is that students come in pretty well equipped to write the five-paragraph essay, and much of first-year writing is a process of undoing that."
College professors, according to Gere, expect their students to be able to demonstrate evidence-based argument in their writing. This involves reading and synthesizing materials that offer multiple perspectives, and writing something that shows students are able to navigate through conflicting positions to come up with a nuanced argument. For those trained in the five-paragraph, non-fact-based writing style that is rewarded on the SAT, shifting gears can be extremely challenging. "The SAT does [students] no favors," Gere says, "because it gives them a diminished view of what writing is by treating it as something that can be done once, quickly, and that it doesn't require any basis in fact."
The result: lots of B.S.
"In our placement tests, you see this all the time, where people continue the B.S., because they just assume that's what works," says Perelman. "I think [the SAT essay] creates damage, that it's harmful."
College Board President David Coleman just might agree. In September, Coleman seemed to concede that something is amiss with the essay. He raised the possibility of an essay revamp as part of a 2015 SAT overhaul that would focus the writing exercise more on students' ability to critically analyze a piece of text and craft an essay that draws on the information provided.
That sort of change may seem like a good place to start. (Would it be too much to ask for some scratch paper, too?) But Gere says we should watch what we wish for with respect to changes to the essay format. She notes that as rushed and crazy-seeming as the SAT essay-scoring process is, the fact that real-live humans are reading and grading the essays is a positive. Computerized scoring is now used to grade writing submitted as part of the GMAT and TOEFL exams, among others. And that method of essay-scoring has come under fire from the National Council of Teachers of English and others for an array of alleged deficiencies—including an overemphasis on word lengths and other measurables, inaccurate error recognition, and a failure to reward creativity.
An SAT essay based on a longer passage with more detail and a constrained set of acceptable response options would likely result in written works that are much more amenable to machine scoring than the current essays. The forthcoming attempt to "fix" the SAT essay may be less about using a model that better lends itself to more valid assessments of students' writing skills, or turning out better writers, and more about saving money and time by eventually replacing human essay graders with machines.
"It seems to me pretty clear that's where the SAT is headed," Gere says. "So it goes from bad to worse, actually."
And although other standardized tests—such as the LSAT and certain Advanced Placement exams—include essay components that differ from the SAT in terms of what skills are being tested and how writing submissions are scored, those alternative methods are not without their critics. So there would appear to be no standardized-test-essay panacea.
Kaplan's Gruenwald notes that there have been rumblings about making the SAT essay optional. And some, he says, have suggested doing away with it altogether. Perelman would have no problem with that option. He notes that there's one thing he tells every student working to achieve a high score on the SAT essay. "Use this [approach] on the exam," he says, "but never write like this again."


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