Five Problems With Standards-Based Grading
Wendy Hart: Standards-based grading will lead us further away from freedom and individuality and could lead to a loss of selected types of knowledge.
Author: Wendy Hart
Wendy Hart is the mother of three children. She and her husband Scott have live in Highland, UT. She was raised in Cupertino, CA, and moved to Utah to pursue her B.S. in Mathematics from Brigham Young University. She has worked as a programmer and manager in several hi-tech companies in Utah, and owns her own database migration company. Wendy is honored to have served the citizens of Highland, Alpine, and Cedar Hills, UT as a member of the Alpine School District Board of Education for two terms.
The Assessments Are Rigged
Wendy Hart: Instead of wondering how kids are doing on state assessments and whether a school is “good” based on the assessment scores, we need to be asking what are these assessments supposed to be measuring and how do we know they really are measuring what they claim?