Category: Forum

Grading as Social Control

Pat Carini (2001) wrote about taking “humanness, and the valuing of humanness, as starting place and center for education” and resisting “the oversystematization and depersonalization of school.” She also wrote about how in schools, “children are mostly looked at through …

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Meier shoutout to The Having of Wonderful Ideas

“The heart of being an educated person lies precisely in the nuances that separate our choices. Let’s be cautious about aligning everything into a seamless garment” (Deb Meier,  2011). In this week’s Bridging Differences, Deborah Meier wrote briefly of Eleanor’s …

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Grading is: Easy, Difficult, Imperfect, Impossible or Immoral

Much of this comes from an exchange of emails I shared with a colleague. He remains convinced that grading is immoral. As a math teacher, grading is also of great concern to me given the prevailing view of math being …

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