{"id":77267,"date":"2021-11-02T01:15:46","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T05:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=77267"},"modified":"2021-11-01T17:18:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T21:18:01","slug":"a-crusade-to-end-grading-in-high-schools-toch-tugend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/11\/02\/a-crusade-to-end-grading-in-high-schools-toch-tugend\/","title":{"rendered":"A Crusade to End Grading in High Schools [Toch &#038; Tugend]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/magazine\/2021\/10\/20\/crusade-end-grading-high-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>A Crusade to End Grading in High Schools<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from washingtonpost.com by Thomas Toch and Alina Tugend; with thanks to Ryan Craig for this resource<br \/>\n<em>One educator is leading an effort to evaluate students differently. Can it catch on?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">He envisioned schools where students learned math, history and science not as isolated subjects in classroom-bound courses but while working together to address real-world issues like soil conservation, homelessness and illegal immigration. Such learning would make schooling more meaningful for students and thus more engaging, Looney believed. It would let students demonstrate more talents to colleges, holding out the prospect of a wider, more diverse range of students entering higher education\u2019s top ranks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The existing high school transcript, however, with its simple summary of courses and grades, wouldn\u2019t do justice to the interdisciplinary, project-based learning he wanted. It wouldn\u2019t capture students\u2019 creativity, persistence and other qualities. Looney needed a radically different way to portray students\u2019 high school experiences, one that replaced grades with a richer picture. But he didn\u2019t know what it was.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Today, 275 private high schools and 125 public schools are part of the nonprofit Mastery Transcript Consortium (MTC). They are in various stages of designing and launching the transcript \u2014 and working to make Looney\u2019s radical vision a reality. Started in 2017, the organization is expanding rapidly.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Crusade to End Grading in High Schools &#8212; from washingtonpost.com by Thomas Toch and Alina Tugend; with thanks to Ryan Craig for this resource One educator is leading an effort to evaluate students differently. Can it catch on? 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