
Encore: The Tyranny of Letter Grades
EdSurge Podcast
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Tod Rose, Is There a Reset?
Tod rose: We don't trust medical schools to credential right? If everybody who takes the test passes, they get to be a surgeon. There's not like every year there's ten % who get to be surgeons. That would be the dumbest thing i'v heard. And yet, ow, let's go to education. What he means is that doctors don't get to become doctors just by getting good enough grades. They have to pass a credential exam. In most schools in this country, when students pass a class, they don't have to demonstrate mastery of the material. The system should be striving to insure that every kid reaches high levels of understanding and competence on things that
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