I have two young kids in the early grades of school. We moved to a new state a while back and I just got my child's first report card and instead of A's & B's, it's a Proficiency-Based grading system, with all the areas listed and "BEG", "DEV" and "PRO" (Beginning, Developing and Proficient) listed as results for each area.
I wasn't too concerned because I assumed this was just for 4K and maybe first or second grade or something; but then I found out that both the elementary and high-school are adapting to this new system and now I'm trying to educate myself as much as I can.
I don't want to be someone who is always stuck in the old ways of doing things without any tolerance for changes for improvement, but as this is a change to part of a system, there will obviously be varying degrees of positive and negative effects and impact on people and the various parts of the education system. For example, if there are no more letter grades or GPAs being calculated, how will this effect how colleges evaluate students and consider them for acceptance and/or scholarships, etc?
Here is the article I am looking at, but as someone with quite low intelligence and unfamiliar with the basics of education, I don't really know how to take all of this in.
What are the other concerns for this? Are a lot of other schools going after this change? Are colleges on board? What are the opinions on this on a more national scale?
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Submitted December 22, 2018 at 01:58PM by commentsurfer http://bit.ly/2GBBROK
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