Interesting story out of Fort Wayne Community Schools, which has laid out new guidelines for teachers grading students — including ditching percentages as the baseline for determining whether students earn A’s, B’s, C’s, D’s or F’s. From the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette:
“A Fort Wayne Community Schools high school teacher can no longer dock a student’s grade for skipping class, give a student extra credit for bringing in a canned good for a food drive or give extra points for touchdowns scored in Friday night’s football game. These examples are among a host of problems FWCS is trying to address with a new high school grading system. The district implemented the changes this school year hoping to graduate more students prepared for life after high school.”
Read more at: www.journalgazette.net
