Today’s moderator: Maureen Downey
Maureen Downey has written about local, state and federal education policy at the AJC for 12 years. She’s also taught college classes in mass communications and journalism. However, she’s learned more about schools from having four children in them.
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Should report cards come with user manuals? As states and schools strive to provide more information to parents, they are creating complex grading systems designed to go beyond pass and fail. I discuss the pros and cons of this trend. In a guest column, a community advocate talks about how dropout diversion efforts need to begin in middle school, where students often fall off the radar. And teachers speak out in the reader response column on grade inflation and what they consider increasing pressure on them to raise student grades.
Throwing a curve by Maureen Downey
Guest columnist:
To prevent dropouts, start in middle school by Missy Dugan
Response to recent conversation from our readers
