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...They used more than one instruction method--lectures, small-group work, diagrams, peer tutoring--so that kids who learn better with one strategy rather than another were not left behind...
...pushing 60, Richard Serra is the John Henry, the steel-drivin' man, of American sculpture at the century's end. There are a few other sculptors of comparable distinction around--Martin Puryear comes to mind--but in the handling of heavy metal Serra has no peer; there, he is the most original figure since David Smith, who died more than three decades ago. It was Serra, with his ability to involve the human body as a participant in his work--demanding something more from a spectator than the sole act of looking, and yet harshly rewarding the eye as well...
...sense is that, if the facts are as you state in the specific case you cite, it is the exception rather than the rule in the role that course assistants play." This parsed statement only underscores the fact that there is no rule at Harvard College regarding peer undergraduate grading. Despite what the EPC may have intended, section hiring is essentially left to the discretion of course heads...
...deans cannot have it both ways. Peer undergraduate grading cannot be viewed as "wrong and inappropriate" on the one hand and be allowed to occur on the other...
From this senior's perspective, the undergraduate experience will continue to be compromised as long as the practice of peer grading of subjective work continues. It Is time for the Faculty to legislate on this issue. Our education has suffered long enough...