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How Do You Grade a Creative Assignment?

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The concerns you have about assessing creative work seem to reflect an important (I would even say necessary) ethic you are attempting to live up to in your teaching. She tweeted : “In my course on The Holocaust, I gave my students choice between a final project and a final exam. I feel weird about testing them on genocide.”

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Why Do So Few Black Men Become Teachers?

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To begin to answer this question, EdSurge recently spoke with Sharif El-Mekki, CEO of the Center for Black Educator Development, a prominent teacher pipeline that pushes for greater educator diversity in public schools, and Meheret Woldeyohannes, the director of external affairs for that organization.