lobotomized weasels

A sharp caveat to English teachers everywhere--which, if you didn't know, includes me--from Crispin Sartwell. As a colleague of mine puts it, this is what happens when we value institutions over people:

In Indiana this year, the junior-year English essay will be graded by computer, and similar experiments have been tried in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Oregon. The SAT and the ACT are planning to test the new computer-grading software as well.

At least our beleaguered test, the WASL, is still graded by humanoids.

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