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[quote=Anonymous]You missed an important distinction. I believe that[b] effort that leads to achievement [/b]should be rewarded not effort alone. Big difference.

Elementary school is about learning foundational skills. The lesson that if you work hard even in areas where your interest or natural abilities don't give you an advantage, you can achieve the top rating is really critical to future success in later academics. Any higher level success requires perseverance. If you take away incentives to achieve, which is what this system is doing, you rob kids of learning this skills. You also box kids into not discovering that they may actually like an academic area that didn't come easily to them once they broke through a barrier.

Measurement should be consistent and defined. I haven't seen any evidence that this is the case. A larger problem is that some teachers have removed unit testing and are assessing based on going observation. They can not produce any evidence of what the kids are actually learning or not. [/quote]

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