A just-released report confirms earlier studies showing that machines score many short essays about the same as human graders. Once again, panic ensues: We can’t let robots grade our students’ writing ...

Our students don’t write to impress a rubric--they write to be heard, and using AI to grade student writing misses the mark.

A professor at Arizona State University is calling for the end to "White supremacy language," and to do away with the common way of grading papers in favor of labor-based grading that will ...

Guest Post by Carl Pletsch, Ph.D. You might have heard professors talking about how they love teaching, but hate grading papers. You might have even read Mitch’s blog post about the struggle it can be ...

The undergraduate Philosophy Major places a heavy emphasis on reading and writing. The students' reading and writing skills are tested mainly through writing assignments in which the philosophy ...

Grading papers is not paid work everywhere in the world and in every institution of education. Sometimes the feedback submitted by the teacher is not on par with something that can be written by a ...

Despite what many outsiders may think of teachers and their work lives, it's a demanding occupation. My wife and I received a Christmas card from a former colleague of hers, an accomplished woman who ...

Editor’s Note: Jay Parini, a poet and novelist, teaches at Middlebury College in Vermont. He is the author of “The Art of Teaching.” His novel “The Last Station” was made into an Academy ...