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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: thundley4 on April 08, 2009, 01:49:43 PM
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If by alternative grading, you mean that feelings are more important than learning, then okay.
Cheat on a test, get a zero. Turn in a late assignment, the grade suffers.
They are the long-established rules of engagement in school.
But now a growing philosophical shift is putting more emphasis on what students are learning overall, rather than mostly focusing on a grade that can be pulled down by smaller assignments, quizzes, bad behavior or poor study skills.
Plano school officials are exploring a policy for middle schoolers that would not dock grades for cheating or late assignments. And teachers wouldn't grade some homework at all.
Plano ISD officials had hoped to roll out the new policy next school year, but the changes have been delayed because several teachers raised concerns they wouldn't be able to hold students accountable, according to documents and e-mails obtained by The Dallas Morning News.
But for some parents and teachers, such policies lower expectations and soften consequences for students who don't do work.
The debate touched down in Dallas schools this fall, when officials revamped grading rules to allow high school students to make up work and to retake tests without taking hits to their grade-point averages. Educators nationwide are abuzz with policies that challenge current student grading models, said David Chard, dean of the Simmons School of Education and Human Development at Southern Methodist University.
Link (http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-pisdgrading_08met.ART.State.Edition2.4aa8a29.html)
Not keeping score in sports and games was just the start.
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imagine there are no report cards... imagine your child isn't learning anything besides how to put on a condom... still can't read when they are 16...
hey don't worry 'bout it...
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Well we knew DISD was $%)^$*#$!. Add Plano ISD :whatever: