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Defenders of the Core Program have justified these restrictions by arguing that Core courses are carefully reviewed to ensure consistency in grading and to avoid forcing students into classes with substantial prerequisite knowledge. Yet the workload and grading patterns of “International Conflict and Cooperation” and...
The past few years have witnessed a boom for the testing industry. While standardized tests have been used for decades to measure students across school districts and state boundaries, only recently have schools and governments begun to attach significant consequences to the results. In many states, a high school student...
This new evidence of large-scale testing errors only adds to the case against high-stakes testing. State and federal funding devoted to the design and grading of such tests could be better used providing resources to teachers, reducing class size or raising teachers' salaries. Standardized testing can serve as...
Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.’s...
However, the program does not address many student concerns. Because the college system ends after the first year, its provisions for advising will not help second- and third-year law students. Moreover, the initiative does not address what many consider to be some of the most pressing problems at the...