Is The Traditional Public School Grading System Racist? Part I: Standards-Based Grading
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18 responses to “Is The Traditional Public School Grading System Racist? Part I: Standards-Based Grading”
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This is the first that I have had of this system. I think there are some elements I like, such as progress, but I am not sure I understand the system as a whole. In the spreadsheet sample you provided, how are the “grades” of 4, 3, etc. for each standard derived? Also, it seems artificial to use those standards as benchmarks.
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Talk about teaching to the test! On it’s face, it works better with subjective items than objective. But on math and science maybe not so much…. So part two, the soft racism of low expectations, I suspect?
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It is already written. I’ll post it soon.
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Hilarious. Instead of finding a way to help kids gain mastery or functional knowledge of a subject, educational academics spend their time creating a new scheme to cover up their own profession’s problems.
Too bad RVA can’t create a scheme like this to smokescreen their rotting school buildings. -
The equity tag will not work. New grading scale will produce similar results to old grading scale. I do see a bit of a safe harbor in the new approach. It will further grade inflation with lower standards and lower quality of content. That might lead to the appearance of progress.
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That is not what the data show, but the data are all from schools freshly trained by one organization. I’ll provide it in part 2.
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I looked at the gradebook spreadsheets. That is a dream come true for school teachers looking to dodge the sweat equity needed for a considered evaluation of student performance.
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Way back when I was in law school, no one’s name was listed on a test. Rather, each student was given a number associated with his/her name. The number was entered on the test paper or blue book for essay questions. The instructor graded the tests without knowing the identity of the student. As I recall, the same process was used on the two bar exams I took.
This approach should be used in K-12, probably in higher grades to avoid as much bias in grading as possible.
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Your solution provides equality. They want equity.
I see the complaints being the teachers (too white) and the subject matter itself (also too white- Eurocentric) do not allow a student of color to succeed. It’s not that the teachers unjustly grade. It’s the kids can’t learn because the subject matter itself is not equitable, thus they can’t succeed.
But I have a sneaking suspicion those pesky Asian kids would still out compete all kids no matter how “equitable” the subject matter is to the “chosen”minorities (again those pesky Asians wrecking the theory that overall minorities are held back by white supremacy).-
We need a constitutional amendment to prohibit any competitive sports, most especially professional sports. Sports involve competition and winners and losers. How is that equitable?
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I agree that if equity is the goal in schools then sports and any other activity where you need to try out for a spot should be removed. You can’t have meritocracy in the same space as equity. I mean how can a kid be first chair violin when other kids don’t have access to a violin, the instruction, or the dexterity. Not to mention those kids would most likely have to play Eurocentric music created under the oppressive system of white supremacy.
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Standards-based grading is not my solution. I tried here to provide a balanced summary of what it is. I don’t have a personal position about it. You will see I do have a position about it being labeled as a mandatory equity change.
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I was talking about TMTs solution where students names are removed thus potentially removing any implicit bias in grading.
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Scantron and a #2 pencil.
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Re: “If you don’t use it, your school system is being told it is presumptively racist.” That is simply not true and it also not true that sbg is a time sink. It does take more work at first but once your standards are chosen it saves time because in so many ways teachers are working smarter, not harder.
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