Professor who also serves as director of writing program: Grading based on quality is racist --American University will host an event with a professor from a writing center which argues that American grammar is racist. [Yes, I heard that adverbs have been attending Klan meetings!] | 18 Jan 2019 | American University in Washington, D.C. is hosting an event on Feb. 1 on "antiracist" grading with a professor who serves as director of a writing center which argues that American grammar is a "racist," "unjust language structure." The seminar, titled, "Grading Ain't Just Grading: Rethinking Writing Assessment Ecologies Towards Antiracist Ends," will be led by University of Washington-Tacoma professor [but no scholar] Asao Inoue, who previously published an essay titled, "A Grade-less Writing Course that Focuses on Labor and Assessing," in which he argues in favor of "dispens[ing] almost completely with judgments of quality when producing course grades."