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[quote=Anonymous]I wonder if Madison's lax grading policy has led to more absenteeism. Madison admin has been sending emails about chronic absenteeism, another email was sent out today. I don't know if this is something they do every year or this is related.

Schooling vs. Learning: How Lax Standards Hurt the Lowest-Performing Students (The 74) [/url]https://www.the74million.org/article/https-www-the74million-org-article-schooling-learning-lax-standards-hurt-low-income-students/[url]
A new working paper from Brown University…[looked] at what happened when a state, North Carolina, lowered its standards…[The study] found that…student grades went up a lot…Students in the top half of the performance distribution were the main beneficiaries of the easier grading scale, and students with incoming test scores below the median saw no GPA increases at all…One explanation the authors found is that students at the bottom end of the academic distribution started missing more classes. The new, laxer standards allowed the lower-performing students to increasingly disengage from school and fall further behind their peers. Worse, these effects compounded over time, and the more lenient grading standards eventually led to lower ACT scores for the students who came in the furthest behind.[/quote]

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