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At least I won't be grading papers. I am going to Cody, Wyoming for two days because I am the chairman of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center--you know it's the Athens of the west. Then I am coming back and having Easter and Good Friday at Memorial...
Even without considering inflated grading policies, there already exist too many factors that detract from the uniformity of a course's sections. Most obvious are the variations among teaching fellows, from the dynamic leaders who draw students into discussions to the meek leaders who allow three or four students to...
But while there is much that cannot be controlled in the administration of a course, consistency in grading is one empirical standard to reach for. The option still exists whether to support Darwinism or to embrace the inflation of first-year grades. There is already too much luck involved in...
Too many of us have had a paper returned with a mediocre grade only to see a comparable paper by someone in a different section praised to the skies by a different TF. Indeed, one of the largest problems with the Core is the fear of random assignment into the...
Last semester, "Warren Court" Professor Morton J. Horwitz often lectured about our inalienable, constitutional rights which are immune from the intrusion of state governments. The federal Bill of Rights can not be applied differently in different locales. But even as he preached this gospel, his course's sections, our metaphorical...