Could You Teach Without Grades? Posted on February 20, 2015 by Jennifer Gonzalez
http://www.cultofpedagogy.com/starr-sackstein/
We have been talking about rethinking grading in my setting and having just gone through the unwieldy task of trying to assess the large amount of work that my students created in tech class, I was reminded of my intrinsic resistance to the emphasis on evaluation, testing, assessment that is rampant in education. I was therefore quite pleased to come across this post on Gonzalez's excellent blog Culture of Pedagogy.
Here's a summary of the podcast interview she did with educator Sackstein...
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