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A Grading Method for People with No Time to Spare

BY ROGER OCHSE I ran a company for fourteen years, sold it in 1990, and chose a classroom over a boardroom. I’ve taught college classes for more than forty years total, some of which overlapped with my time running the company, though most came after. I kept teaching once I retired from full-time faculty work—several…

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Why and How I Stopped Grading

BY DAVID MASON In January of 2020, I decided not to grade anymore. It wasn’t a nod to the chaos of a pandemic, which had not yet affected the United States. I had stumbled onto Jesse Stommel’s “How to Ungrade,” which pointed to a body of work on the topic. On the realness of the…