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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A couple months ago Washington Post’s Jay Matthews cautioned against the rush to standards based grading:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/12/18/student-standards-based-grading/[/quote]

Matthews advocates the following approach:

"Supporting the best teachers and spreading their methods to others, classroom by classroom, has worked for schools that have focused on that. But it takes flexibility and common sense, rarely found in our big plans that never seem to achieve the promised results."

https://davidlabaree.com/2021/04/26/jay-mathews-why-plans-to-raise-educational-standards-will-never-work/[/quote]

This article include's a book review by Matthews of a book that discusses the failure of common core. I think the following quote sums ups how I feel about skills-based grading because once again we are spending money and time on something with no evidence to support that it works and it has nothing to do with better teaching.

"Loveless takes a speculative journey at the end. What if, he asked, all that money spent on Common Core had been devoted to “discovering new, more powerful ways of teaching and creating new, more effective curricula?”

“Fractions are like a gigantic wall that kids hit in fourth, fifth and sixth grades; some crawl over, but many do not,” he wrote. What if that Common Core money had instead funded “dozens of experiments to discover new curricular materials and new ways of teaching fractions, field tested new programs in randomized trials, and then disseminated the findings broadly?”

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