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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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Why worry about grading?

With all of the pressures and demands on teachers, principals, and districts, why focus on improving how we grade? Grading is more than the final

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