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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Again, this isn’t coming from the board. It’s coming from administrators. And I am not understanding that this is equity driven. It seems harder to get good grades.[/quote]

Here’s the explanation: https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/ed/19/05/grade-expectations

The idea is that grades should reflect what the kid knows at the end. That means, grades for quizzes, homework, class work, participation, etc. count for nothing. It also means for kids who are low A students down to about C+ students, their grades will often come down because there is no buffer to help boost their grade to the next level. Kids who are tippy top As, are fine, but that’s not the majority.

Of course, you also have teachers who have very hard grading policies, extremely hard tests, and are poor teachers. Add that to some schools/teachers applying this process and others aren’t, it’s a terrible policy. I know others will argue that in college there are only final assessments and shouldn’t kids’ grades be based on what they actually know at the end. The problems with this are: this isn’t college yet, it’s not a universal system so kids who are under it, are compared to kids who aren’t, and these grades have a major effect on the student’s trajectory. [/quote]

If that's the policy, the exams should be standardized across departments and weighted to whatever the average is supposed to be. [/quote]

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