When Students Run the Classroom Here’s an easy question: What would happen if children were allowed to come up with their own grading rules? Common sense — not an immediate recollection of the plot of Lord of the Flies — is all one needs to possess in order to know that rudderless kids just might come up with a system that puts immediate gratification before, say, scholarship. It’s not unlikely, for example, that 20 5th graders could put aside their feuds to agree on the following: Homework grades should be given only when the grades will “raise a student’s average,...