The Washington Post’s Daniel de Vise includes here a piece by two California professors, who discuss the problem of teaching college students who need remediation.

The most important thing, in my view, is for professors to carefully line-edit each draft, then require the student to revise. That takes a lot of time, but there is no shortcut.

The solution that cuts the Gordian Knot would be to restore English throughout K–12 so that students don’t get through high school without reasonably good language skills. That won’t happen, because of the animosity in education schools toward all those fussy old rules.