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Taking a break from Chemistry 163, Cohen says that his next foray into the classroom will be in the spring of 2010 as a professor for the introductory chemistry and physics course, Physical Sciences 1: “Chemical Bonding, Energy, and Reactivity: an Introduction to the Physical Sciences.?...
What are women doing instead? Teaching, mostly. Women spend more time (7.5 hours a week) on grading or commenting on student work than men (6 hours). They also spend 10.9 hours a week on course preparation, compared to 9.1 weekly hours for men. While these "microdifferences" are not significant week...
In response, the Law School announced that professors who teach classes with more than 30 students will be allowed to award Dean’s Scholar Prizes—a distinction that is intended to replace the A+ in the previous grading system.
A number of students praised the clarifications to the grading policy yesterday, citing the increased transparency as a welcome departure from Kagan, who had been resistant to releasing the grading curve.
Still, concerns remain that the new grading policy may not achieve its stated goal of tempering the grade-focused culture at the law school.