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...going to show you how to complain," says Marline Pearson to a class of 15 unusually attentive college students. Pearson, a sociologist, is teaching a course called Couples Relationships at Madison Area Technical College in Madison, Wis. When one of her students mentions that her boyfriend is always, like, falling asleep when they're supposed to do stuff, Pearson seizes what feels like a teachable moment. She suggests the student zero in on a specific time when her boyfriend dozed off and tell him how it made her feel. "Stay away from 'You always' and 'You never,'" she advises. "Even...
This new breed of romantic counseling--equal parts sex ed, social science and Dear Abby--is now being offered as formal courses at colleges and high schools across the country. Over two weekends, Pearson's students learn methods developed by researchers at the University of Denver and used for marital counseling in churches and in the military. They watch videos of fighting couples and discuss how conflicts can spiral out of control. They learn tidy formulas for success and failure in love: the three characteristics of successful couples (one is a man who can accept influence from a woman...
Many publishers, including the three major players in the collegiate textbook market—Pearson, McGraw Hill and Thomson—charge students in America twice as much for textbooks as they charge students in Europe or Asia. The publishers are price discriminating, charging Americans more than students in other nations because U.S. customers are willing and able to pay more. But such a policy is inherently unfair to poor American college students who would benefit greatly from the discounts offered to all students, rich and poor, in other countries...
...subjectivity. Parents have already called to say they don't understand how a 3 differs from a 4. In response, the board is conducting further studies of the test and developing more consistent, less pliable 1-to-6 scoring points. Graders hired by an Iowa City, Iowa, company, Pearson Educational Measurement, will actually score the essays. Pearson trains its scorers to follow the 1-to-6 guide closely. Two of them will read each essay, and on the basis of the firm's experience with exams in Texas and elsewhere, they will disagree only 30% of the time. When they...
...Allison Pearson is the author of the best-selling novel I Don't Know How She Does...