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Even in the supposedly objective world of grading, an A was not necessarily an A for a woman taking classes in Harvard Yard between 1946 and 1950.
They may spend as much as 60 hours a week creating lesson plans, teaching, advising students, grading, supervising extracurricular activities and meeting with colleagues and parents, yet teachers may earn 25% to 40% less than other white-collar professionals. While Frederica Capshaw, 52, is thrilled to be teaching math in...
2 TEACHERS Distance learning is becoming more popular, and through the miracle of online classes and electronic grading, today's faculty lounge could become tomorrow's virtual help desk. Though a complete conversion is unlikely, outsourcing our education system might cost less than installing all those metal detectors.
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 are vicious or...
"In large courses with lots of different TFs you have to address the question of common grading standards, so that all students are getting equivalent grades for equivalent work," says Elizabeth B. Clark, the head teaching fellow for Historical Studies A: "Women Feminism and History."