For the second year in a row, I am spending time in Daytona Beach, Florida grading the AP English Language exam with around 900 distant friends and colleagues.  This year, we’ve got around 300,000 essays to grade (gulp) and about one week to do it.  It’s the largest volume of essays AP has ever contended [...]

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Hello loyal readers/intrepid first-timers/random browsers!  I just wanted to give a quick update from Daytona Beach, where (as my calendar indicates) I am grading AP English exams with 800 other high school and college instructors as we plow through a whopping 250,000+ essays.  Contractual stipulations prohibit me from sharing any specifics (not that I’d blab [...]

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