Illinois High School Changing Grading Criteria to Achieve Racial Equity of Outcome

Illinois High School Changing Grading Criteria to Achieve Racial Equity of Outcome

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  Many OPRFHS teachers are successfully exploring and implementing more equitable grading practices such as: utilizing aspects of competency-based grading, eliminating zeros from the grade book, and encouraging and rewarding growth over time”
  

"Oak Park and River Forest High School in Illinois is implementing a new grading plan for the 2022-2023 school year that will take certain racial differences into account.
They’re not going to assign grades based on race, but they will stop penalizing certain students for tardiness, not turning in assignments, etc.
Oak Park and River Forest High School administrators will require teachers next school year to adjust their classroom grading scales to account for the skin color or ethnicity of its students..."