It’s a very brrrrrrrrrr morning down here in South Georgia. I haven’t been out walking yet. I’m doing things in reverse this morning. Warming myself up with freshly brewed coffee and some warm thoughts before I go out and risk being quick frozen before I reach the end of the dirveway. The house is a [...]
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Someone has been raking me over the coals about bringing up this issue of grades over and over and over again. I do so because this is obviously an issue that won’t go away however we may want to turn away. I bring up the issue of grades, as I told some people already, because [...]
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Well, it’s finally the end of the semester. Boy, do I need the good cheer of the holiday season. The lingering goodbyes and the tearful till we meet agains with students during the last-day-of-class closure has been replaced this past week by a grateful and relieving feeling that a suffocating weight has been lifted. This [...]
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My latest Random Thought has generated a lot of discussion about the value and use of textbooks as I had hoped and unexpectedly reigniting some discussions about testing and grades. At the same it has revealed more. All these exchanges, as I already have told many people, remind me how we’re all very good at [...]
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Well, the semester is over. I’m in an impish mood that’s going to get me in trouble. And, talking about trouble, there’s a riot brewing over by the bookstore. Students are lining up in moody hordes to sell their textbooks as fast as they can even to find to their displeasure and anger they’re being [...]
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