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by anthonypasq 30 days ago
the existence of scantron and the laziness of teachers have turned nearly all assessments into multiple choice which is a terrible type of question. Now we have the technology to have better more signal-heavy types of questions to also be graded automatically. seems like a good thing.
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Teacher salaries have collapsed since the fifties - when, by the way, we could get the brainuest element of half the population due to institutional sexism. My jr high teachers would be federal judges today. They were worth about 7 times what we paid them then; we pay them less in relation to other highly trained services today.