Downgrading grades, ‘celebrating all students’

Downgrading grades, ‘celebrating all students’

"The bar keeps getting lower in New York City’s public schools, writes Erika Sanzi on Project Forever Free. 

It’s a game of hide the data.

Chancellor Richard Carranza’s new grading policy bars failing grades. 

Students will be marked “in progress” or “incomplete,” even if they’ve done no work at all, writes Sanzi.

...“We’re focusing on daily participation, homework, tests and quizzes,” the anonymous principal said. 

“ . . . They didn’t just lower the bar. They eliminated the bar.”....Read all, it gets worse!