Computer grading of essays at the high school level

[missypie]

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I would’t look at it as an English problem, but as a math problem. If an English teacher spends 5 minutes per student grading work each week, and has 5 classes of 35 students, that’s more than 15 hours of just grading above and beyond teaching, planning, … – and many teachers teach six periods, bringing it to 18 hours a week.

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<p>I hear ya. It seems like every school ought to have a couple of excellent writing teachers and at some point, every student would have a class with one of them.</p>

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I’ve argued to little avail that English teachers should have a lighter class load than other teachers rather precisely because of the grading burden.

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<p>Smaller classes…in public schools…in Texas…we can only dream!</p>