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The Pros and Cons of Standards-Based Grading

Today's Learner

It has been a determining factor in students’ admissions to colleges, law schools, medical schools, and even driver’s licenses. It can skew the results of the SBG in favor of those with equity advantages. After all, the goal of standard-based grading is equity. Written by Nick K.

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The Pros and Cons of Standards-Based Grading

Today's Learner

It has been a determining factor in students’ admissions to colleges, law schools, medical schools, and even driver’s licenses. It can skew the results of the SBG in favor of those with equity advantages. After all, the goal of standard-based grading is equity. Written by Nick K.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

Elevating Stories of the Unrecognized — Agnes Scott College. In July, Agnes Scott College launched the Acknowledging our Past: Acting Now for a Transformed Future project, which aims to elevate the lives and stories of the people of color who built the college. Multicultural Mentorship — Augustana College.

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Why Worry?

Inside Higher Ed

Community colleges failing to fulfill their mission. College students, like all too many older adults, find themselves enmeshed in a Durkheimian nightmare : without a “sense of common bond or shared identity, a void of powerful values, lives of bleak consumerism. It will change higher education forever. Grave threats to tenure.