While I’m sure we all get a bit frustrated at the student on the golf team who has to take the make-up exam because her team is traveling to Winnetka while everyone else is in exam mode, it nevertheless seems clear that we shouldn’t: (1) send an email asking a student who stutters not to participate in class; and (2) then allow that student to keep his hand aloft for 75 minutes the following day in class. Otherwise, we might end up on the front page of the New York Times.
More relevant to this week’s Great Depression theme, the New Yorker has a piece reviewing a bunch of new books on Keynes and the economic theories that undergirded the New Deal–and created fierce opposition like the Tea Party. It’s still behind the firewall, but a blog by the author can be found here.
sad story; the issue of time allotment is a serious one. What I try to do is have students talk in groups together, formulate questions together, come up with insights together – in part so that everyone gets the opportunity to speak, but also so that questions, insights, and problems can be most effectively put together.