Posted on 02/03/2022 7:35:42 AM PST by C19fan
At Boston University, students are no longer graded on their writing, as Marisa Milanese and Gwen Kordonowy, explain in a recent article on the school's writing program's “‘ungrading’ movement.”
According to Milanese and Kordonowy in a recent column, out of 100 instructors in the Boston University program, “nearly half employed contract grading in some form this semester.”
Milanese and Kordonowy, a master lecturer and senior lecture, respectively, say they still comment on students’ writing, although, they “…no longer place a letter or number on anything they write. No As and Bs. No 82s or 94s.”
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This has been the case for a good number of years. When I returned to uni for a another degree, (much) younger classmates were told not to worry about form, mechanics or coherence. Just write!
How does one write without coherence?
I skated, although I was told not to use $10 dollar words. Those same words are, or were in my time, common English.
I work in a community college library and have been there nearly thirty years. Students will print their research papers out and invariably leave copies laying around or in the printer. I have watched the quality of the writing in these papers deteriorate each year. They are now to the point of what I would have written in fourth grade.
These students graduate high school barely able to write a coherent sentence at this point. Public schools are destroying our society, there is no real education happening there anymore, just leftist indoctrination.
Students nationwide in many school districts are no longer required to learn ... anything.
Why don’t we just have everyone, regardless of talent or contributions to society, the Nobel prize, and a nice night participation trophy to boot?
1. 2010-2015
2. We used FORTRAN and Matlab, we could have done the same things with python/r and c/c++ and actually been practical. We were just told “You don’t need a computer”. We suspect it was because the teacher didn’t actually know the language. None of this examples really worked and couldn’t do anything on the spot. Our exams we would have to hand write the code, triple check matching brackets.
3. He was Jewish from Tel Aviv.
“Let’s make college degrees worthless. Tuitions will still cost you an arm and a leg, however.”
Your wish is granted: Most are already worthless and they do cost a fortune.
Grades? Not necessary, but they surely will be cashing the tuition checks.
The “Big Education” cycle
make unlimited loan money available to students
raise tuition to vacuum up money
pay profs and admins huge salaries
profs and admins donate to Democrats
and repeat
AOC’s alma mater.
Grading is racist and whiteness.
“Judging from what I see in writing from the most prestigious traditional journals down to yesterday’s new blogger, nobody is grading or correcting anyone’s writing.”
Ain’t nobody got time for that.
How long before China, Russia, Iran or North Korea surpasses the USA as the dominant superpower? And all this because millennials are too sensitive and easily offended to handle real life.
I remember taking English classes in college in the mid-70's. I realized early on that the classes were all about writing. If we read something, they didn't really care what we thought about it; they wanted to know how well we could write about it.
I remember an English class in my sophomore or junior year in which a friendly acquaintance was not going to take the final exam because he had already flunked out. I looked at one of his "F" papers and was shocked at how poor the writing was. He seemed a reasonably intelligent person, but he wrote in in sentence fragments that made little sense. Maybe some people are sort of dyslexic when it comes to writing?
Well MATLAB is very useful if you're an engineer. FORTRAN not much anymore unless you're doing old code maintenance. Another thing there are MATLAB look alike for free on the web that run on PCs. I think there are also free open source FORTRAN compilers too. (Though I have never actually checked!)
I had to do APL, PROLOG, LISP & then finally something relevant C\C++. (It was for an MS Computer Science with an AI specialty)
And he was anti-Israel?
Lots of money to be made off ‘students’ that are unqualified to be in a University system... A corrupt Education Industrial Complex hides behind a decent reputation earned decades ago... one they don’t deserve.
China, Russia, Iran or North Korea surpasses the USA as the dominant superpower?
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At this rate, Mexico has a good chance of joining the “surpassed the USA” club.
This started in the 60’s.
Matlab is fine as a language I suppose Simulink was really the only useful thing. I just have never encountered and employer than uses it. My last two jobs C++ was essentially a requirement (mostly real time systems), and if we need a quick script we just use python.
He was pro-Israel, mainly it had nothing to do with DiffEq.
One problem is foreign nationals, particularly from China. All they study is Math to get into schools in the US. Their English skills are horrible and never seem to get better.
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