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Listen "#93: Making the Grade"
Episode Synopsis
When the pandemic shuttered schools, it also put grades on hold. But suspending A-F grading also exposed the underlying flaws of a high-stakes system. Historian Ethan Hutt joins us to discuss the origins and often conflicting purposes of grading, and some possible fixes.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/opinion/coronavirus-school-grades.html
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