Sometimes it feels like you need a master's degree in education just to decipher all the eduspeak in the comments section (not to mention schools that have moved away from
using traditional letter grades).
In Gloucester, Massachusetts, angry parents forced administrators to abandon a report card that replaced
traditional letter grades with student portfolios and teacher narratives.
Hybrid report cards that
show traditional letter grades along with scores on each measurement topic may be a bridge to changing report cards from a time - honored icon in most U.S. schools to a useful reporting tool.
VantageScore has also
assigned traditional letter grades — A, B, C, D, F — to credit score ranges, to help you easily understand whether you have a good score, fair score, or poor credit score.
The middle schools and high schools
use traditional letter grades, A — F. Although the state's assessment system is uniform in most aspects, the jump between elementary and middle level can be overwhelming for students trying to navigate the waters of early adolescence as well as school structures.
If a local school encourages kids to learn in teams instead of alone and parents are given qualitative accounts of their kids» improvement instead
of traditional letter grades, chances are that that school is something special.
Administrators in Florida, Oregon, New Mexico, and many other states as well were forced to defend or abandon revamped reporting formats that did not include
the traditional letter grades.
The standards - based Report Card does not give
a traditional letter grade (A, B, C, D, U).
Monona Grove Superintendent Craig Gerlach said he's concerned the public will equate the color - coded categories with
traditional letter grades, which some other states use to rate schools.