His position was far different from many non-tenured or non-tenure-track scholars these days at universities that increasingly rely on contingent adjunct labor. Jones told the Times that he doesn’t want his job back. In a vacuum, this case is perhaps not such a big deal. Opinion: SEL doesn't have to be a classroom culture warīut as students have become more academically successful, there is also some evidence that they have become less resilient, more anxious and less able to cope with life setbacks – like failing organic chemistry.
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12, 1974, the first day of school under the new busing system put in place to desegregate Boston Public Schools. It sounds like Jones was unnecessarily harsh on students, and that the university had what was perhaps a missed opportunity to work with him to improve both his interactions with students and their performance.Īnd with many more young people going to college and the stakes so much higher – income gaps between those with a college education and those without are striking and elite colleges in particular are seen by many as a tried-and-true pathway to financial wellbeing – it makes sense that a more-competitive educational environment has produced many more high-achieving students at institutions like NYU.īOSTON, MA - SEPTEMBER 12: Eighth grade students sit in an integrated classroom at Mary E. Harsh grading practices simply for the sake of it do not align with the goal of any educational institution, which should be to help students learn. There has been a shift in the past decades toward a more student-centered learning experience, and that’s a good thing. Student evaluations of his course were predictably low, the university said. Jones was also, according to some students, harsh, sarcastic and dismissive he did not seem to be the kind of professor who went out of his way to help struggling students, expecting them instead to work as hard as necessary to meet his exacting expectation. And some of the student complaints laid out in the petition might strike those of us who went to college in the Before Times as a bit unrealistic: They noted that Jones did not offer extra credit and that he did not make his lectures available via Zoom.
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Students who completed their high school years during the pandemic, Jones observed in the Times report, seem to have no idea how to study. We, my fellow progressives, must admit it Students in districts that closed down the longest during Covid-19 have experienced the most significant learning losses, studies and tests show. Remote learning was a spectacular failure. And the pandemic does seem to have turbocharged existing problems, while creating brand-new ones. A great many experts in education have observed and quantified grade inflation and lowered academic standards. Jones isn’t alone in observing this dynamic. “We now see single digit scores and even zeros.”
“In the last two years, they fell off a cliff,” Jones wrote in a grievance letter to NYU. He made his exams easier an unusual number of students still did poorly on them. (Full disclosure: I was an adjunct in the NYU journalism department in the Spring 2022 semester).įor his part, Jones says that he noticed a decline in student ability about a decade ago. It’s worth noting that according to the Times, students expressed surprise that Jones was fired, which their petition did not call for. A spokesman for the university told the Times in defense of their decision to terminate Jones’s contract that the professor had been the target of complaints about “dismissiveness, unresponsiveness, condescension and opacity about grading. This year, though, he was sacked – after 82 of the 350 students in his course signed a petition because, they said, their low scores demonstrated that his class was too hard. He was tenured at Princeton, wrote an influential textbook, retired and went on to teach at NYU on an annual contract basis, where he won awards for his teaching. is one of the nation’s top organic chemistry professors. The basic outline is this: According to an article in the New York Times, Maitland Jones Jr. Jill Filipovic Courtesy of Jill Filipovic
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