We previously have blogged the web site RateMyProfessors.com, which has has ratings of over 700,000 professors (including many Tax Profs) posted by students.  The site boasts:

Students have turned the tables on their professors at RateMyProfessors.com, the Internet’s largest listing of college professor ratings. The free website offers a public review (and sometimes a public flogging) of university professors from across the United States and Canada.

Online since 1999, RateMyProfessors now contains over 5,000,000 ratings for professors from 5500 schools, with thousands of new ratings added each day. "Every semester, millions of students use the site to help plan their class schedules, and improve the quality of their educations," says the site’s president and founder, John Swapceinski. "When word of the website gets out at a university, the ratings grow like wildfire and students really begin to benefit from the information." RateMyProfessors allows students to anonymously rate their professors in each of three categories: Helpfulness, Clarity, and Easiness. Now, students can see who the hottest professors are at their school….

This morning’s Inside Higher Ed reports how one professor has turned the tables with a blog (Rate Your Students) that allows faculty to rate their students:

Professors have long been taking it, and now they can dish it too.

For some professors who have had to cringe at scathing personal attacks posted by students on RateMyProfessors.com, a new blog — Rate Your Students — is providing a bit of catharsis.

RateMyProfessors.com, launched in 1999, has come to be the bane of some professors’ semesters. The public site allows students to anonymously rate instructors on categories like clarity, helpfulness, ease and even some qualities that arguably aren’t critical to learning, such as hotness.

“We love our jobs,” said “The Professor,” an associate professor at a small college in the South who started Rate Your Students anonymously in November. “But we are reacting to something we see as unfair,” he said in an interview. The Professor makes sure that neither people who submit a post to the blog nor the students they rail against are identifiable.

Several students pointed out that, ostensibly, RateMyProfessors.com, which lists over 700,000 professors, has a function: to provide information for students trying to choose courses, whereas Rate Your Students does not. The Professor, however, sees utility. “When we have the occasional moment of frustration,” he said, “to vent — that makes me a better teacher.”