How We Grade Kids

Submitted by Judy Hanning on Mon, 2020-09-21 06:00

Too Much Grading

Of all the areas in contemporary education in which we've made some genuine strides of progress, how we grade students may well be the last bastion of outdated conventions that persist so incessantly.

Key Takeaways:

1
One sad truth about the education system is everything is graded.
2
Grades have long been seen as an evil that is necessary.
3
The A to F grading system is obsolete these days and does not work.
Read the full article here:
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/sept20/vol78/num01/Five-Inconvenient-Truths-About-How-We-Grade.aspx?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9lIGK6ES3_enms6gyoUtV7aQhWXbN32JMqMN4utb-v5sDHnbuhBkNUVe6xxFPIt2ziQ62zRTPI09WYRulujFTybv_JIA&_hsmi=94616990