{"id":86322,"date":"2023-03-28T19:47:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T23:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=86322"},"modified":"2023-03-28T19:47:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T23:47:54","slug":"to-help-new-students-adapt-some-colleges-are-eliminating-grades-marcus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2023\/03\/28\/to-help-new-students-adapt-some-colleges-are-eliminating-grades-marcus\/","title":{"rendered":"To help new students adapt, some colleges are eliminating grades [Marcus]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/03\/26\/1164832694\/to-help-new-students-adapt-some-colleges-are-eliminating-grades\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>To help new students adapt, some colleges are eliminating grades<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from npr.org by Jon Marcus<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt <span style=\"color: #800000;\">(emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Experiences like these are among the reasons behind a growing movement to stop assigning conventional A through F letter grades to first-year college students and, sometimes, upperclassmen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Called &#8220;un-grading,&#8221; the idea is meant to ease the transition to higher education \u2014 especially for freshmen who are the first in their families to go to college or who weren&#8217;t well prepared for college-level work in high school and need more time to master it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>But advocates say the most important reason to adopt un-grading is that students have become so preoccupied with grades, they aren&#8217;t actually learning.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To help new students adapt, some colleges are eliminating grades &#8212; from npr.org by Jon Marcus Excerpt (emphasis DSC): Experiences like these are among the reasons behind a growing movement to stop assigning conventional A through F letter grades to first-year college students and, sometimes, upperclassmen. Called &#8220;un-grading,&#8221; the idea is meant to ease the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,86,115,823,533,3,419,102,7,838,79,66,50,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assessment","category-change","category-colleges","category-credentialing","category-experimentation","category-higher-education","category-ideas-teaching","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-liberal-arts","category-student-related","category-teaching-learning","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86323,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86322\/revisions\/86323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}