Editorial: Grades should measure what kids have learned. Too often, they don’t
Occasionally, public school students will come across a teacher who allows them to take a test a second time if they performed poorly on the first round. During this difficult school year of online learning, the Los Angeles Unified School District is holding off on giving failing students a grade of F for their first-semester work. Giving students extra time to learn — and chances to retake or make up tests and assignments they failed — is a much better approach than what the district did last spring. But on the website We Are Teachers, Grand Rapids high school English teacher Derek Boillat points out that students learn far more from figuring out how to do things the right way after a failure. The idea is to grade students on how well they’ve mastered the necessary skills and knowledge by the end of the school year, not on whether they handed in all their homework on time.
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