TeacherReviews.com Forced Offline

MrCawfee writes "Dylan Greene's site Teacher Reviews which allows students to post reviews of their professors. The site was taken down because a professor complained about comments made against him, and threatened to sue. Here is an exerpt from his blog: 'Yesterday and tonight I talked with a professor who was extremely upset with what written about him on TeacherReviews. He had several inappropriate reviews that made unfounded accusations and inappropriate untruthful remarks such as calling him "Bipolar Paranoid Schitzophrenic."' You can read his blog here."

Comments

Re:making student evaluations public

[Peyna]

We're in "No Child Left Behind" mode now though; so that means that we have to dumb everything down so everyone can succeed on the same level and past pointless standardized tests that see if 6th grades know 1st grade math and 50% of them still can't pass....

most college profs suck..

[jeoin]

I think there needs to be a standard of education accountability within the college school structure. Current standards hire seemingly based soley upon accolades while neglecting teaching ability. Students have no rights. They are ripped at every avenue and forced to acquire mounds of debt. Education should be free. It seems the US college structure is built just to lock students into a fixed path of repayment and service. Education is not about jobs. It is about learning. Stop being subserviant. Review more teachers. If they can't teach or speak the language they should have to take classes, and buy books just like all the kids they screw yearly. High school teachers would outperform most college proffesors easily in a teaching evaluation.

Re:Chilling effect

[DAldredge]

Once the ACLU starts protecting the entire Bill of Rights I will donate, but not till then. I do donate to the EFF.