Adam Grant recently wrote a piece in the New York Times titled “Why We Should Stop Grading Students on a Curve”.
My feud with the Bell Curve God aside, I also understand the logic of grading on a curve. Mostly, though, my emotions have ranged from frustration to ambivalence.
I think Grant puts it well. I would like to see alternative or modified grading schemes of the sort he proposes – it sounds like it’d be a weight off our shoulders.
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