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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These are Feldman's points from "Grading for Equity" Please tell me how Madison is different.

The 0-100 scale should be abandoned, and the letter grades A-F should correspond instead to a 0-4 scale.

Cumulative marking period grades should only include the most recent grade, in cases when a student shows improvement over time, and earlier test scores shouldn’t be averaged with later ones.

Homework, classwork, participation and effort should all be excluded from a course grade.

No more zeros and the death of deadlines

Test “retakes should be available whenever a students wants to improve their performance.” Earlier, lesser scores should not factor into the grade at all. [/quote]

Who TF is Feldman? Some random guy who took concepts from an existing educational concept and slapped a trendy term on it.

SGB predates Feldman and is not related to "equity". 
2010
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED509404.pdf
2012
http://www.alfiekohn.org/article/schooling-beyond-measure/
2015
https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/are-letter-grades-failing-our-students
2016
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED590391.pdf

Sorry to disappoint the "anti-equity" people. 
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