http://www.kimberlyswygert.com/archives/002408.html Remember the August entry about the horror of red pens? The idea that it matters more what color the teachers uses to grade papers, than how or what she teaches, just refuses to die: An increasingly popular grading theory insists... en-us http://www.thegookins.net/index.php?p=52 Over at Number 2 Pencil I found a link to this article about teachers who are switching to purple ink for grading papers because they think red ink may somehow damage the self-esteem of their students. I'm afraid I may have inadvertently started th... http://captainyips.typepad.com/journal/2004/10/dread_purple_pe.html Everyone's clobbering orthographically challenged muralist Maria Alquilar. But I wonder: could she have been an early beneficiary of the grading policy Kimberly discusses here? Except, that her teachers used . . . invisible ink to correct her spelling?...