smartchica47 : MyBlogHer Profile

As someone who does research on school finance, particularly in California, I am all too aware that many of our public schools are seriously under-funded (I say 'many', not all, because there are also quite a few that are just fine, thanks to inequities in the way schools are financed, but that's a whole other discussion). While my research focuses on the systemic funding, I've always been most heart-broken by the stories about the impact on individual classrooms.  Read more >

I have many objections to super-large lecture sections (which, unfortunately, are my University's response to higher student enrollments) but probably my biggest gripe is that they provide a huge disincentive to have students write. Even with masters-level teaching assistants, and even if papers are short, I don't think any but the most masochistic professors would want to deal with grading for that many students.  Read more >