BY MATT HASTINGS There is a well-worn comparison made between public schools and factories. Students are moved through school systems along assembly lines. Teachers work on the students as they pass in and out of classrooms coordinated by a system of bells. The end product of this assembly is some kind of standardized person, who… Read More Return on Investment Schooling
BY JULIANNA BROWN Much has been said about the psychological effect of standardized testing on students. Very little has been said about the effect of the far more pervasive and potentially more harmful practice of grading. Many have accepted grading as a fact of life in education, a practice so ingrained in the fiber of… Read More A Deeper Look at Classroom Grading Practices, Harmful or Helpful?
BY JIANGHUA CHEN Soon, the most important annual event will take place in China. It’s not a national holiday or the New Year celebration, but rather the gaokao, the college entrance examination that about nine million students will take over the course of three days. I was born in 1988, eleven years after the Chinese… Read More The One Test Policy
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