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Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the old way of grading
Pandemic-forced school closures revealed how grade-point systems hurt disadvantaged children, prompting educators to look for ways to bring equity to grading.
www.latimes.com
Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the old way of grading
Pandemic-forced school closures revealed how grade-point systems hurt disadvantaged children, prompting educators to look for ways to bring equity to grading.
www.latimes.com
Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the old way of grading
The trend was accelerated by the pandemic and school closures that caused troubling increases in Ds and Fs across the country and by calls to examine the role of institutionalized racism in schools in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd by a police officer.
“By continuing to use century-old grading practices, we inadvertently perpetuate achievement and opportunity gaps, rewarding our most privileged students and punishing those who are not,” their letter said, quoting educational grading consultant Joe Feldman.
Several school districts across California, reflecting a diversity of demographics, are taking steps toward revising grading with an eye toward equity.
“We in the United States are more bound by tradition in grading than any other developed nation in the world,” Guskey said. Grading reform is not about watering down expectations; it’s about ensuring that grades are meaningful and fair, he said.
Watering down expectations is EXACTLY what this is about.
Instead of taking steps to remedy the real issues they just lower the bar and scream their failures are the result of institutionalized racism.
This is nothing more than dumbing down the public to ensure future total communist control over a population.
Typical leftist BS.
