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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has the Madison admin ever said why they changed the grading system?[/quote]

I've heard them talk about how they worked on this process for years, and they used to talk about a Madison alumni - I can't remember his name - but I remember even Hood talking about him and "deeper learning." Basically, he's some tech guy that made money and now acts like some kind of salesman for his ideas that have something to do with education in this country being based on producing factory workers and we need to be educating creative citizens.

This isn't even true, because elementary education used to be geared to giving people the tools they needed for life:literacy, writing well, math skills, ect... People that were on a college track were going beyond this and weren't being educated to be factory workers. I think in elementary, rote learning can be very useful and even provide the foundation for deeper learning, but rote learning and memorization are now considered bad.

Madison has always experimented from what I hear, and there is nothing wrong with trying to do things better, but the best schools I've encountered are better because the administration goes out of their way to support teachers and take up as little of their time as possible with meetings and training so they can focus on teaching. [/quote]

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