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Arizona State University professor says traditional grading system is 'racist' and demands an end to 'white supremacy' by grading papers based on EFFORT
Results don't matter? Teaching that is a strange preparation for later life. Is any employer going to tell the kids that results don't matter?
A professor at Arizona State University is arguing that the traditional grading system is 'racist' and is calling for an end to 'white language' by encouraging teachers to grade students based on the labor they put into their work instead of factors like spelling, grammar or quality.
Asao Inoue, a professor of rhetoric and composition, has given a series of lectures on the topic and most recently delivered one during a virtual event Friday, during which he argued that labor-based grading 'redistributes power in ways that allow for more diverse habits of language to circulate,' the College Fix first reported.
During his lecture, titled The Possibilities of Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies, Inoue said: 'White language supremacy in writing classrooms is due to the uneven and diverse linguistic legacies that everyone inherits, and the racialized white discourses that are used as standards, which give privilege to those students who embody those habits of white language already.'
In other words, Inoue urged teachers to focus on how much effort students put into their assignments and understanding the lesson rather than traditional spelling, grammar and punctuation grading norms.
Inoue refers to the common way most teachers and professors grade papers as a phrase he coined called 'Habits of White Language,' or 'HOWL.' Inoue said that HOWL and white supremacy culture '[make] up the culture and normal practices of our classrooms and disciplines.'
'Labor-based grading structurally changes everyone's relationship to dominant standards of English that come from elite, masculine, heteronormative, ableist, white racial groups of speakers,' Inoue said.
Inoue wrote a blog post on the matter that he shared in a tweet on October 25 with the excerpt: 'The antiracist use of any model of English languaging should open up our eyes, ears, and hearts to our own and others' languaging behaviors... to open up the conventionality and unconventionality of both our models and our own languaging…'
In his blog, he addresses white teachers specifically and writes: 'You grade your students on the English you learned and grew up with, the kind of English in your models and training, but like those Filipino or Native American students, your students aren't you, nor are they like the authors of your models. They do not come from where you or those authors came from, not exactly. And they are not embodied in their language practices in the same ways as you are.'
He continued: 'Further, your students will likely use their Englishes for different things in their lives than you do. It's not that they don't stand to learn something good from your English or your models, but we too often grade them on how closely they are like our models. This means you punish students for not being like you or like your models.'
In his lecture, Inoue also asked teachers to consider one characteristic of white supremacy culture that they engage in during their courses, the College Fix reported. At another point in the presentation, he had participating teachers and students pause to exercise 'an important antiracist practice' of examining how they participate in racism or antiracism.
'Pausing in our work helps us intervene and disrupt by first noticing ourselves participating in racism, engaging in white fragility, in white rage, or white language supremacy,' he said.
Inoue's talk came during a 70-minute event hosted by the Rhetoric, Writing and Linguistics Speaker Series sponsored by the Department of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The discussion was geared toward professors but was also open to students, alumni and others.
According to an online description of the talk: 'Inoue poses problems about dominant standards of the English language in schools and universities and the Habits of White Language (HOWL) that are paradoxically meaningful and harmful to locally diverse students when used to evaluate their language performances and produce grades.'
Inoue told Fox News on Tuesday that 'labor-based grading ecologies are fundamentally about creating compassionate, democratic conditions, ones that are critical and rigorous, if by rigorous we mean deep, thoughtful, engagement with each other for each other's sake and not for grades or false external motivators that ultimately erode students' abilities to learn and take risks.'
Inoue said that he is not calling for an end to teaching spelling, grammar or punctuation, but what he's arguing 'for are safe classrooms that offer better, clearer ways to understand what it means to learn dominant forms of English in our world today'
'These new conditions can provide a wider group of students who come from a more diverse set of language backgrounds, to thrive and learn. This is important to do if we are to inquire about the politics of English language in our world that end up creating situations of misunderstanding and harm.'
Inoue said that he is not calling for an end to teaching spelling, grammar or punctuation, but rather: 'What I'm arguing for are safe classrooms that offer better, clearer ways to understand what it means to learn dominant forms of English in our world today.'
Inoue and his wife recently launched an antiracist teaching endowment that aims to fund 'an antiracist teaching conference for secondary and postsecondary teachers,' 'support a summer workshop or institute for a smaller group of teachers to learn about and research antiracist teaching approaches,' and create 'several scholarships for students who wish to focus on antiracist approaches to teaching in a variety of disciplines,' according to a blog post explaining the program.
In a tweet pinned on his profile, Inoue wrote: 'The new antiracist teaching endowment that my wife and I just started is now accepting donations! If you've benefited from my work at all over the years, consider donating something. Thanks!'
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Texas School Board Says Parents Should be Ashamed for Criticizing Sexually Explicit Library Books
Keller Independent School District was found to have a book in one of its libraries that included illustrations and descriptions of sex, pedophilia and incest, according to an Oct. 26 Twitter thread posted by a parent in the district.
The district then informed parents that the book had been removed from the library. However, other books later discovered by parents that also contained inappropriate material remain.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) issued a letter to the Texas Association of School Boards, calling on them to "ensure that no child in Texas is exposed to pornography or other inappropriate content while inside a Texas public school."
And after the district was criticized on Facebook for offering the pornographic book to children, KISD School Board President Ruthie Keyes responded with a comment that said parents should be ashamed of themselves for spreading the content online.
"This was one of 589,000 books in the district," Keyes said in her response on Facebook. "It was immediately removed and the only reason hundreds of people saw it is because people started distributing out [sic] on social media. Those are the people that should be ashamed for distributing. I wish people would want to be part of the solution and ask what they can do to help instead of spreading hate and division."
Her remarks prompted a petition, which has about 1,500 signatures, asking for the district to hold a special board meeting.
Nonprofit parents group Parents Defending Education slammed the district for Keyes' response to concerns raised by parents.
"Sadly, in far too many districts across the country, school board members ignore and mock the concerns of the very people they have been elected to represent. It's little wonder there were electoral repercussions last week - a trend that is likely to continue unless and until voters are treated with respect," PDE President Nicole Neily said in a statement.
"It would be strange if parents were not concerned about sexually explicit material accessible to their children — the content of some of these books is not only ideological in nature but also graphic its depictions of sexual acts between adults and children," she continued. "A strap-on dildo is not something parents expect to see in a book on the school library shelves."
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Critical Race Theory in Our Schools? Fact-Check: True
The media keep denying this fact because it would force them to defend CRT’s merits
Mainstream media outlets have assured their viewers time and time again that Critical Race Theory (CRT) is not taught in public schools. MSNBC host Joy Reid insists it’s merely “anything that makes a white parent uncomfortable.”
Another host, Nicole Wallace, went so far as to say, “There is no Critical Race Theory.” These pundits have attempted to convince people that CRT in schools is a “racist dogwhistle” or a “coded boogeyman.”
There’s only one problem: It’s not true. Critical Race Theory does exist.
The architects of CRT — people like Kimberlé Crenshaw and Richard Delgado — would be very distressed to learn that their theory does not, in fact, exist. CRT has been taught in schools like Harvard Law for many years, though it has increasingly filtered its way down to K-12 schools.
A lot of parents know that this narrative by the mainstream media is a lie.
This worldview lens through which CRT advocates teach history and social studies has been part of the education curriculum in K-12 schools for a while. And thanks to COVID-19, parents were able to see during their children’s Zoom classes exactly how this ideology is taught.
In Loudoun County, Virginia, parents are at the forefront of this conversation. They have been attempting to make their voices heard with the Loudoun County School Board, letting the members know they don’t want CRT in their schools. One white mother told the school board she pulled her child from public school because she came home asking if she was born evil because of her skin color.
Another mother cited how this very theory was used to dupe black people during the Nazi regime. And yet another mother said she didn’t want her black child being told that because of his black skin, he couldn’t succeed or that his white classmates were guilty of “white privilege.” But the Left’s message to these concerned parents was, Don’t believe your lying eyes.
Critical Race Theory is taught in K-12 schools.
CRT is not explicitly a part of the curriculum. No, they don’t have books labeled “Critical Race Theory,” but teachers are aware of it and are using the tenets of CRT — racial essentialism, institutional systemic racism, and claims that America was bad from the start due to slavery — as lessons in all sorts of subjects.
There have been stories about third-graders being made to rank themselves based on the amount of privilege they have according to CRT. One math curriculum in Seattle put more emphasis on CRT activism than on math itself.
Reporter Christopher Rufo has a list of the terms that schools use to mask the fact they are teaching Critical Race Theory. Teachers are also undergoing trainings on this worldview with the explicit purpose of using it in the classroom. As a former teacher myself, I can attest that this is most definitely the case. A simple search into a popular teacher resource exposes the lie.
I had the honor of teaching a high school U.S. Government class last year. In one of our discussion-led lessons, CRT was a topic brought up by a student. He had been told by another teacher at his previous school that because he was white and male, people (in his words) “hated him.” This child was only 16. How is he supposed to process that? This goes beyond making “white kids uncomfortable.”
Why the continued gaslighting?
Leftists across the board know that if argued on its merits, Critical Race Theory is not palatable to the American people. It is actual racism toward those they see at the top of the privilege hierarchy, a.k.a. straight white men.
CRT is also a tool of Marxist origin that uses race as a way to gain power and destroy democracy. That is why leftist pundits are so quick to say it doesn’t exist, but don’t you dare take it out of our schools.
They twist the narrative and say that white parents just don’t want their kids to be taught about slavery. By this they are referring to history via the 1619 Project, which is a tool for CRT-type activism, according to its author, Nikole Hannah-Jones.
The mainstream media (the Left’s propaganda machine) and Democrat politicians found out in Virginia just how much of a mistake it is to pretend CRT isn’t real. It is a losing strategy that, if they continue with it, will lose them more important races in 2022.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/84047-critical-race-theory-in-our-schools-fact-check-true-2021-11-09
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