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English Teacher Rethinks Grammar Lessons -- With an App

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English Teacher Rethinks Grammar Lessons -- With an App
1:23:17 AMSarah Kessler
In the last eight years, high school English teacher Jeff Scheur has graded 15,000 papers. He estimates that each time he collects a new round of essays from his 150 students, it takes him about 40 hours to read them, fill out grading rubrics and...



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Wednesday, March 21, 2012 12:58 PMSamantha Murphy
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012 11:46 AMSarah Kessler
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