Rapidly approaching the end of the school year, Alex and John turn to a key question: how to calculate final grades for students? It might seem like there’s an obvious answer, which is to take the average of all of the points earned and divide by the number of points possible. For generations of students and teachers, this was the ONLY way to calculate a final grade, and it is still the most common, but is it the most equitable? John and Alex share their approaches, and in the second part of John’s interview with Dr. Sarah Zerwin, the author of Pointless, an English Teacher's Guide to More Meaningful Grading, she describes her student-centered approach to determining a final grade, among other suggestions she has for more equitable grading. And they end the way they always do with "What's Keeping Us Going," a little bit of good news in the world of education.
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