Word: grades
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...SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION, by Mark Teague (Crown; $16), is an amiable spoof of a traditional fourth-grade hoodoo. Remember having to stand up in front of the class telling the stupid stuff you did while school was out? Wallace Bleff is a kid who gets even by inventing a big story--in verse, no less--about being captured by cowboys: "The Cattle Boss growled as he told me to sit/ 'We need a new cowboy. Our old cowboy quit./ We could sure use your help. So what do you say?'/ I thought for a minute, then I told...
Graduate teaching assistants lead discussion sections and grade papers for nearly all of Yale's large lecture courses. The group represents about 75 percent of the teaching assistants in the humanities and social sciences, but none in the physical sciences. Group representatives would not disclose the margin of the vote...
...grade for an ulterior purpose as a most serious violation of the compact of teaching. Surely this action won't go on without an appropriate response," said Dean of Yale College Richard Brodhead...
Gramercy, it turned out, is more than a room and a bath. It provides job training and counseling on issues from drugs to family planning. It arranged special tutoring for Joshua, who is in second grade, and even located a Cub Scout troop for him. Randy could earn "shelter money" to buy necessities, while 80% of his $490 a month from Aid to Families with Dependent Children (afdc) check was set aside by the Gramercy staff to build up some savings so he can move out and start paying rent on his own place. That will happen within two weeks...
According to Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz, students are only allowed to grade material that is "objectively right or wrong." This requirement reduces student TFs to grading machines, simply checking off words or numbers as they appear. No knowledge of subject matter or skills of assessment are necessary for this job. Under this criterion, anyone at all could grade work for any class...