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Becker said the award recipients were decided through a process using recommendations, CUE guide racings and word of mouth...
Harvard is not educating us poorly. Rather, it could do better with what it's got. Harvard's goal, I suggest, ought to be the complete restoration of a Socratic dialectic in our education. An ethic of continuous self-improvement demands more than just CUE Guide evaluations...
...know it's always deflating to inject facts into a spirited debate on theory, but that is what the CUE produces at its best--a 50 percent return rate of which, perhaps, 10 percent are useful and about five percent reflect sheer disgruntlement, while another five are testament to the general bliss of the excellent student doing well. It should come as no shock that I could do my final grading from these evaluations. I gave two straight As, had two truly disgruntled students in my class who did not do well, and felt that, overall, about 10 percent were...
...find it surprising that Brad Setser and other UC members quoted in your article support a wider use of the CUE to assess teaching fellows. Such a practice would represent a quick fix of "empowerment" to those students who care or are particularly disgruntled that would, in the end, be diluted by the general apathy and lack of inspiration in the average CUE response. A few particularly lame TFs would go to the woodshed on the third floor of the Science Center and the status quo would remain in place. The plan also makes Dean Buell look good while...
...sound as if I am being too summarily hard on too many segments of Harvard's population, then allow me to indict my own. One reason for the apathy at Harvard, which I am arguing is reflected in the percentage return and general vapidness of CUE evaluations, is grade inflation. Most students will not complain about a decent grade even if they think it is a hollow one. Who can blame them for that? I freely admit (for the second time now) that I am part of this trend to inflate grades. And I reiterate that nothing will change this...