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Inflate Balloons, Not Grades

The Shock of Public Scrutiny Early in my teaching career in New York City Public Schools, I knew that my students weren’t getting grades that

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The Grade Depression

The First F In my second year as a New York City Public school teacher, my student, Sharone, declared that the first F she ever

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Can We Trust The Transcript?

“Each year, millions of high school students are receiving grades that don’t represent what they actually know and have learned . . . Yet, they

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The Tyranny of Grading Software

How do electronic gradebooks undermine teachers’ professionalism and anchor them to an inaccurate and unfair grading system? Grading has come a long way from the

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Trusting Teachers’ Judgments

“Doubting their own professional judgment, teachers often believe that grades calculated from statistical algorithms are more accurate and more reliable.”–Thomas R. Guskey Teachers, as trained

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