Letters to the Editor
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Re: “Failing Introductory Economics”
To the editor: I admire the fact that Professor Ross is not willing to “dumb down” his class in order to make it more popular. Colin Barnett Albuquerque, NM
Author’s response to recent Letter to the Editor
To the editor: A recent essay in the JMC (“A Better Way to Teach Law,” 17 August), generated much constructive, professional feedback. There is one correspondent who brought up an…
Engineering education requirements aren’t all that different from law
Being both a US-trained lawyer and having formerly held a professional engineer’s license, I have some personal knowledge of both the engineering and legal professions. The author misunderstands an engineer’s…
The mismatch admissions problem must stop
To the editor: The Mismatch Problem? Certainly we can and probably should spend the time & effort to study, with significant rigor, the outcomes of mismatched admissions to demanding programs….but…
The goal of a foreign language requirement isn’t fluency
To the editor: The purpose of foreign language education is not to become fluent in a language, which you note but seem to ignore in your final argumentation. Rather, basic…
The importance of demanding performance before promotion
To the editor: A response to Robert Weissberg: It might have been a failure of good intentions, but it was more likely to have been living so high up in…
Compromising our values undermines our educational system
To the editor: I have read Robert Weissberg’s excellent article “How the Best of Intentions Created Today’s Academic Disasters.” This important article captures the often unspoken and infrequently discussed concerns harbored…
Grading students serves the system – not learning
To the editor: I was pleasantly surprised by Douglas King’s “A Defense of the ‘Ungrading’ Movement” (July 13, 2022). This article was very good, I thought, at uncovering the intentionality inherent…
Is “ungrading” better than traditional methods of assessment?
To the editor: Prof. King chases the Ungrading Grail, believing it to be the Answer. He explains: “faced with this systemic and perennial predicament (that different teachers have different expectations…
Liberty Institute’s failure to launch
To the editor: How disappointing to have read Professor Lowery’s article on the abject failure of UT leadership. As the saying goes: “no good deed goes unpunished…”. In this case…