Higher education in this country is a joke. This is just more evidence to support this fact. The fact that teachers have to continue to funnel money into these institutions in order to maintain certification is a crime.

For real? What a buch of crap. At the college level,$20,000 and up and a prof can't grade my work? At the elementary and secondary level, how do you grade a kid you don't know, their IEP, personal life etc? I am so sick of people who don't teach coming up with crazy ideas. This blog needs to get back to real, local issues and leave the theoretical to the academics who don't teach.

This is a case where teachers are teaching the content and not the people/students. As long as this continues to be the practice we will continue to head in a sorry direction. (Doing my best to sound like a grupmy old man here) Back in my day my professors knew me, knew what I was capable of, what my challenges were and what my interests were. I had great relationships with many of them and that made the experience better.

How can professors know how their students are doing if they are not grading the papers? Part of any teacher's job is to modify instruction to best meet the needs of the students, and without taking a look at papers & assignments, that's not possible. I think outsourcing grading is a disservice to students and I think students should request to have their money back if this is going on. A teacher's job is to help a student learn, not just to recite a lesson and go home.

I don't see what the big deal is due to budget cutbacks more undergraduate students are being hired to grade homework and sometimes even tests. As an undergrad student I used to grade for a number of science classes in my major. Quite candidly as long as you have the answers and some kind of understanding how else those answers might appear I think this kind of outsourcing of the papers allows the teacher more time to teach and consult with students directly. It has been my experience that in a big lecture hall the teacher modifies the lessons by looking at test scores and student questions (that is if they modify the lesson at all). I have yet to see a college professor modify a lesson based on homework. As a grader I used to send reports as to what questions were commonly missed or what concepts the students really did not have a handle on. The best I saw come about it were a few e-mails directing the students to clarifying material and office hours. Let's get real - we aren't talking about outsourcing k-12, in college you don't get your hand held!

For the teachers, it will lessen their jobs at school.But on the other way around, how they can say the real standing of their students if they didn't depend it on the papers.

Read the post from Call Center. A person with this grasp of the language is going to grade papers? Oh my!