Kale Kimbrell
ELA
Mrs. King
18 March, 2016
Should students have letter grades?
Letter grades should not be used to grade students in school. Because there here to learn, not to pass things.(In fact, they’re “relics from a less enlightened age,” says education expert Alfie Kohn, author of punished by rewards and schooling beyond measure and who (Time Magazine Cindy Long) (describes as “perhaps the country’s most outspoken critic of education’s fixation on grades and test scores.)
“The research quite clearly shows that kids who are graded and have been encouraged to try to improve their grades tend to lose interest in the learning itself”.Because grades are always being checked and kids get in trouble for no re\sometimes because the teachers
ELA
Mrs. King
18 March, 2016
Should students have letter grades?
Letter grades should not be used to grade students in school. Because there here to learn, not to pass things.(In fact, they’re “relics from a less enlightened age,” says education expert Alfie Kohn, author of punished by rewards and schooling beyond measure and who (Time Magazine Cindy Long) (describes as “perhaps the country’s most outspoken critic of education’s fixation on grades and test scores.)
“The research quite clearly shows that kids who are graded and have been encouraged to try to improve their grades tend to lose interest in the learning itself”.Because grades are always being checked and kids get in trouble for no re\sometimes because the teachers