Posted on 05/13/2017 3:48:32 PM PDT by Libloather
Think grade inflation has made grades less meaningful?
A consortium of 100 elite prep schools agrees. But rather than impose stricter grading curves, these schools plan to eliminate grades altogether.
“People are nonstandard,” says D. Scott Looney, head of Cleveland’s Hawken School and founder and board chair of the new Mastery Transcript Consortium. “They grow and evolve in the world in nonstandard ways. Distilling that down to a simple common number like a GPA shaves off a lot of humanity in that journey.”
These are not artsy-fartsy alternative schools; the consortium includes some of the most famous pressure-cooker private institutions in the country, such as Chapin, Phillips Academy and Holton-Arms. Their proposed two-page replacement transcript would exclude not only grades but even the names of the courses a student took.
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Then certainly tracking attendance and tardiness “...shaves off a lot of humanity.”
Just wonder around the school grounds on a mission of self discovery.
On that graph, the sweet spot for criminality is IQ’s around 85 or between 82 and 88.
Que the video at 34 minutes:
The Truth About Crime
https://youtu.be/TVBJ5m3sGfk
A brother to I. B. Looney no doubt.
My statics class had 45 students, and only 5 of us took the final. My professor was had as nails, but he taught me how to be a problem solver.
Explains a lot.
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