Teens ready to prove text-messaging skills can score SAT points

Early Saturday morning, as the new, expanded SAT debuts, American teenagers will hunker down in plastic chairs and bear down on their No 2 pencils, reports The Christian Science Monitor via Ypulse.

"The SAT has undergone the broadest revision in its 80-year history - and perhaps foremost among the changes, and the challenges on students' minds, is a 25-minute, two-page essay.

Though plenty of adults grumble about e-mail, IM and text messaging, many experts insist that teenage composition is as strong as ever - and that the proliferation of writing, in all its harried, hasty forms, has actually created a generation more adept with the written word."

emily | 7:09 PM | SMS and Students |
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