Failing our future : how grades harm students, and what we can do about it /
This book demonstrates both the harmful effects of our grade-obsessed culture and shows how we could do things differently.
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2024].
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. What is a grade? And other important questions
- 1. The race nobody can win : grades as obstacles to motivation and learning
- 2. Helicopters, lawnmowers and stealth fighters : parents and the pressure to get good grades
- 3. The weight of their world : grades and the mental health crisis in America
- 4. Mirror, mirror on the wall : how grades reflect and extend inequities
- 5. Building up and bouncing back : what parents can do at home
- 6. Reinventing education : how teachers are exploring new approaches to grades and grading in the classroom
- 7. Climbing mountains : changing our schools, colleges, and universities
- Epilogue. A future without letters?