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☆ Opinion | Should Schools Curb Grade Inflation?
  + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
To the Editor:Re “If Everyone Gets an A, No One Gets an A,” by Tim Donahue (Opinion guest essay, nytimes.com, Oct. 23):Mr. Donahue illuminates the problem of grade inflation in contemporary education. Yet the essay seems hung up on an outdated system of ranking student performance and an outdated solution: modestly tougher grades. Doubling down on this grading system misses the opportunity to reiterate the real goal of a quality education: learning, which letter grades, as he points out, do not measure in a meaningful way. We know that the richness of learning cannot be reduced to singular data points. Several alternatives to traditional grading already exist to facilitate student growth and learning: narrative evaluations, labor-based grading and self-assessments, to name a few.
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☆ Grade Inflation Needs to Stop - The New York Times
  + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Tim Donahue | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
While I may fret over the ambiguity on Page 5 of a student’s essay, I’m aware of the greater machine. Grade inflation, after all, acts just like real inflation. In the shape-shifting landscape of college admissions, grades have never been more important. And a recommendation letter coming from someone who teaches 150 students is going to look different than from someone who teaches 50. As a high school teacher, I don’t want to hold that much power, nor do I think I should.
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☆ What High Schoolers Need to Start the Year: Seinfeld-Style Griping
  + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Tim Donahue | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
There is nothing more perfectly cynical than a high-schooler in the first weeks of a school year. With sand still in their shoes and few memories of alarm clocks, they suddenly find themselves in a procession of groggy mornings and hard chairs, in classrooms where the air is heavier and warmer than it should be.
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