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A, B, C or D – Grades Might Not Say all That Much About What Students Are Actually Learning

For more than 80 years, students at least in seventh grade through college in the U.S. have generally earned one grade for a ...
Education Week

What Are Grades Really For? What Research Says About 4 Common Answers

When Laura Link works with districts to review their grading policies, she starts by asking a simple question: What are grades for? Are grades meant to motivate students? To help teachers determine ...
Education Week

What Should Teachers Do When Students—or Parents—Ask for a Better Grade?

What’s in a grade? On its surface, a letter or number grade would appear to be a fixed measure of a student’s performance on a given assessment: a test, essay, project, or other tangible piece of work ...
Forbes

Are Grades Harming Students? New Book Asks Us To Consider That They Might Be

In Failing our Future: How Grades Harm Students and What We Can Do About It, Joshua Eyler examines how traditional grading undermines the learning experience for students. He argues that grades ...
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A, B, C or D – grades might not say all that much about what students are actually learning

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Letter grades have long been part of the fabric of the American educational system. iStock/Getty Images Plus For more than 80 ...