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A RED-LETTER DAY, HOORAY< SOME TEACHERS ARE TRADING IN THEIR RED PENS FOR KINDER, GENTLER COLORS - WELCOME NEWS FOR ALL WHO'VE SEEN THEIR SHARE OF RED DURING DAYS IN SCHOOL.(EDITORIAL)
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The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC)
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April 9, 2005
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2005 News & Record. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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In some schools across our great nation, teachers finally are not getting the last word when it comes to grading students' work.
The concern isn't with how teachers are grading, but with what they use to do it: the dreaded red pen.
Parents in Trumbull, Conn., objected to teachers covering kids' work in red, which they said was "stressful." So red pens have been banned at Trumbell's Daniels Farm Elementary School.
First the school's principal said it was the advice on the papers that mattered, not the ink color. But in the "Pantone Guide to Communicating with Color," psychologists contend that colors spark "certain responses."
Red is said to be "aggressive ... ...
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