The new hotness in grading for woke academics: “Dispensing almost completely with judgements of quality.”
Participants will be shown how to “revise course materials so they don’t accidentally promote or reinforce racist practices,” though the particulars are somehow both emphatic and opaque. We are, for instance, told that, “single standards” for language “kill our students,” which sounds just a tad breathless. There will, it seems, be lots of “redesigning assessment ecologies,” and quite a few “dimension-based rubrics,” which, via an as yet unspecified process, will upend “white racial habits of language,” resulting in some kind of righteous emancipation. In short, grading a student’s ability to convey their thoughts in writing – and to formulate thoughts by writing – is a manifestation of “white language supremacy,” an apparently murderous phenomenon, and therefore to be abandoned in the name of “inclusive excellence.”
How is this different from Mao’s little red book?
It’s not. This is cultural Marxism.
I tell people, to make them use language well, that if you cannot express a thought, how do I know you are having it? But then, I am a “language” supremisist.
Well, actually it is, at least where language is concerned. The Chinese – whether Cantonese, Mandarin or other speakers – tend to be fairly rigid on language norms.
I dunt nede no edkatun.
I dunt nede no writin.
I dunt nede no ritmetik.
Exspekally sins I gotta gubmint cheks cumin.
I’ so old and cranky I get perverse satisfaction out of this. Literacy is too good to waste on the left. Maybe charter schools and conservatives can claim the beauty of the English language as one of their unique values, standing against a mob of illiterates, including the deteriorating media.
So in order to make the world sing in perfect harmony, everyone must be forced into illiteracy which leads to ignorance and gullibility.
Who could possibly benefit from this?
It’s now 70 years since Orwell’s book warned us of this.
Well, at least they’re willing to walk their own talk:
… “redesigning assessment ecologies”… “dimension-based rubrics”… “inclusive excellence”…
What a load of twaddle! Give them an ‘A’ for effort and an ‘F’ for results.
“is a manifestation of “white language supremacy,” an apparently murderous phenomenon”
I suppose they need to include music from Beethoven to Heavy Metal, oh and any art, architecture, and poetry that “whitey” ever penned to paper.
Why stop there? Any Inventions, medicines and technology must be racist as well. We’d all be better off sitting in forests and jungles banging log drums and singing our praises to a variety of voodoo blood goddesses. There no more racism.
So basically, these children are taking on mountains of debt to be taught that if they express themselves in a way that someone else doesn’t understand, it’s the other person’s fault.
Makes it that much easier for my children to rise to the top.
It is an article such as this one that makes me wish there actually was a god.
At least that would allow for hope that perhaps, prayers may deliver us from the encroaching madness of the totalitarian and very confused left.
But alas, we are f*cked.
Here’s a poem Duke:
https://poets.org/poem/second-coming
The solution is obvious, and has always been there. What makes you think a university need “accreditation”?
Fairly soon, we are going to start seeing degrees from entirely private institutions that will actively avoid any certification or even recognition from governments. And we will start seeing companies that will not hire anyone with a degree from a long list schools; because it is obvious that they cannot do any job.
It is beginning to take Google and Twitter down; programmers who write woke “code”, are starting to hurt the bottom line. Managers who enforce woke “standards”, and hurting the bottom line. Engineers who build “woke” bridges, are killing people. Cult leaders who build woke “cars”, are killing people. Woke governments are bankrupting vast swaths of their voters, and making them crawl over mountains of human excrement to get groceries. Woke power is setting fires, and leaving people in the dark.
Yep. For too long too many laughed at this stuff and said, ‘wait until they get into the real world.’ Well, these people are in the real world now and they aren’t just working in HR (another LOL joke that people took comfort in). They are in your finance and legal groups, your operations departments and they are running your companies. If they aren’t, the people that are there are spouses or parents of members of the woke brigade. There are still a lot of good people out there but they are being overwhelmed.
good point.
note, this ALL happens in a vacuum. no direct link between any of these trends because there are none. BUT, they happen because *conditions* allowing them to happen are in place.
courtesy the broken brain leftoids. that’s my new phrase-of-the-day: ‘broken brain’. it’s my catch-all to cover the fact there is a sector in society that is impervious to logic and rational debate. *they are incapable of same because their ‘logic’ brain centres are BROKEN*.
trends and patterns all over the place, tending towards a certain outcome, good, bad or indifferent. lots of randomness.
lots of independent players, lots and lots of overlapping and simultaneously contradictory agendas.
chaos and confusion, rumours, lies burying the fragile truth under mounds (some places literally) of shyte.
welcome to a preview of the future y’all !!!!!
It’s all just word salad.
Everytime I see or hear some academic SJW try to explain something, it’s all just word salad, jumbled together.
I noticed this malarkey in engineering 20 years ago.
While I was finishing my Ph. D., I was a teaching assistance in a course that I had myself taken a quarter century earlier as a sophomore. While I was an undergrad, I was taught that all my assignments and lab reports should be treated as engineering documents. That meant being neat and precise, making sure that what we wrote was correct. In industry, one’s calculations and reports usually went into a project file which, once the work was completed, would be archived. Many times, those old project files were used as reference, so whatever went into them had to be precise, complete, and unambiguous.
I was often reprimanded, and sometimes penalized, for spelling while I was an undergrad. One had to be correct in one’s terminology because, often, the aforementioned documents were used by someone else in building or testing something. Correct spelling was essential because parts and materials had to be ordered. There was frequently little time allocated for replacing something that had to be returned because the wrong items were procured due to someone using the wrong description or writing the wrong part number on a purchase order.
Correct spelling and correct writing were part of being a professional.
Move ahead 25 years to when I was a TA. I pointed those same things out to the students whose work I evaluated. I did it because I wanted to give them free advice and to give them a sense of what was expected of them once they received their iron rings and went into industry.
My efforts were a waste of time. The course professor, who taught one of the sections and who actually understood why I did that, told me “this isn’t an English course”. He said it partly as a reprimand but also from a sense of resignation that even his hands were tied by department and university policy.
Then there was the lecturer in the other section. Apparently, I upset one of her students by pointing out that highlighting the answers using hot pink might not be considered appropriate out in the real world. The lecturer blathered on about the student in question did it for “study purposes” or some such thing.
I tried explaining to the lecturer, a departmental research assistant, why I did that. I outranked her professionally, being registered while she wasn’t, plus I had spent several years in industry (and therefore know what I was talking about), I thought she should have taken my advice. However, since she had the magic 3 letters behind her name and I was months away from receiving mine, she was adamant that I cease and desist with such comments.
She clearly stated that she was worried about getting negative student evaluations, maybe because she was hoping for a faculty position. Although she never said it, she didn’t seem concerned that teaching future engineers wasn’t just about the course material but in how to conduct oneself in a professional manner.
“OK, fine,” I thought. I had done my part, given my advice, and she refused to heed it. So, if the proverbial should ever hit the fan because of her, the stuff was going to land on her desk and she would have to fix the problem, not me.
Unfortunately, from what I’ve seen with recent engineering students and graduates, the situation hasn’t improved. Maybe it’s a good time to get out of the business.
Woke, woke, I awoke, I was awake, someone woke me up , it did not enlighten me. So lets start by learning the English language. my mother who taught English lit and grammar would be appalled. Why the hell spell check would say grammar was incorrect is beyond me. Yes grammar is the correct spelling.
They are so dumb they think that behind the fancy words we dont know what the meaning is, and it is ;
we whites must lower the bar for people of color
based on this excerpt, my comment above is 100% right
[…]… In short, grading a student’s ability to convey their thoughts in writing – and to formulate thoughts by writing – is a manifestation of “white language supremacy,”…[…]
that is called lowering the bar.
That was proven many times over in the US with affirmative actions programs anywhere and everywhere.
the external consultant: Dr Asao Inoue
hmmm
the french word innoue, translation: innate
definition of ‘innate’: from https://www.deepl.com/en/translator :
“originating in or arising from the intellect or the constitution of the mind, rather than learned through experience”
well they got THAT part right on, has NOTHING to do with *real world* experience, instead it’s ALL conjuring courtesy academia.
the amount of friggin student debt has to be frightening. for what????
oh, p.s., ‘American Greed’ just covered the celeb brat ‘fast track’ school admissions thing.
heh heh heh.
boy did THAT ever backfire on them. mz loughlin is delusional if she thinks ‘denying it all the way to the bank’
is gonna work.
The French word for Innate is ; inné, not inoue