Asao Inoue – who teaches first-year writing courses and serves as associate dean for Academic Affairs, Equity, and Inclusion – wrote Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Writing Classroom, in which he advocates for a system of grading that circumvents merit.
Inoue – whose “research focuses on antiracist and social justice theory” – explains that his book discusses “grading literacy performances more broadly” – namely, by judging “final course grades purely by the labor students complete, not by any judgments of the quality of their writing.”
“While the qualities of student writing is still at the center of the classroom and feedback, it has no bearing on the course grade,” he explains. “Why take our judgments of quality out of the tabulation of course grades and progress in a course? Because all grading and assessment exist within systems that uphold singular, dominant standards that are racist, and White supremacist when used uniformly.”
“Grading, because it requires a single, dominant standard, is a racist and White supremacist practice,” he adds.
Inoue describes his labor-based system as a tool to enact his “social justice agenda” in his “classroom’s antiracist writing assessment ecologies.”
Inoue’s book contains 358 pages.
Ok now I am convinced. College should be tuition free. They are taught garbage by clowns.
Failure to grade says the least effort spells success.
nowz ize b nozing y da witeys b gainst usses. wheeze gotta b rightin rite to kompete in da worlds. it b supession allz da times. Anyfing be design by whiteys alwazes tries 2 makes mee smarta. u knowze Ize kant b fo dat.
sined, I aints illigimites
Someone needed to sell their struggling book and now is the best time for an attention getting spotlight. Minority college professor (prob with tenure) stirring the pot about college grades at a D1 university. Ha..
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Hasn’t UMES been doing this for years? I mean look at the graduation rate compared to those grads employment rate! Talk about useless degrees!
In street talk he’s a fill in the blank hole.
In the faculty lounge he’s the rectal opening to the outside world.
Way to pick ’em Arizona!
Yeah, he’s taking that position because he’s too damn lazy to grade it because that requires reading it. Truly a monumental task considering the dumb bastards can’t write their names longhand. He’s mastered the art of
drawing a big salary for doing nothing. Not all together a fact, but the dumb bastard we’re talking about does
not have the mental acuity to teach these loser kids on a level as equal to their mentality so they could grasp it.
One of these days, education going back to basics and maybe the system won’t produce so many mental lemons. But, in order to reverse the trend of stupidity that rules the day, first, we must rid the system of a dog dick like Inoue and ALL of his lieutenants. When this is accomplished, a new, quality and capable grad will emerge to the surprize of the idiot liberals and racists who are trying to wreck the academic prowess of this Nation’s institutions of higher learning.
He’s angling to be the ghost writer for Obama’s next autobiography.
College pretty much makes you unemployable in the private sector
This is amazing! No one should take this author seriously just for the fact of he obviously has no clue what has been going on ! Public school students have been graded based on their effort, not their results, for at least the past 4-5 years that I am aware of. I was shocked when our child was forced to school from home because of the “pandemic” as to how little they actually had learned. All A’s and completely uneducated. Purchased an on line private school course where you are not allowed to move to next lesson until you have mastered the first one with a REAL 85% or higher. Getting things DONE now, son!