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i dont really know why--i doubt it's a single factor or policy though. over the past 6 years or so, it's been a consequence of crap like nclb.
but there's a longer-term pattern that fits into, which you can see in the multiplication of basic writing courses in universities, the impetus of which is (no matter what the programs say) a remedial thing---teaching college-level writing is also necessarily teaching the skills associated with it, which include not only the form of a critical essay, but also the modes of reading and handling/organizing information, basic research, etc. these programs came up in response to problems that were already present for universities by the mid 1990s (i think that's when these "writing across the cirriculum" programs really took off, but i could be wrong about that)...
so don't really have a clear explanation for it.
maybe someone else does?
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