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In today’s American education system, grades, teacher feedback, and parental involvement plays an important role in a student's academic life. Emanuella Grinberg’s article “Ditching Letter Grades for a 'Window' Into the Classroom” discusses whether traditional letter grade system like report cards should be replaced by a standard based system that provides more feedback from teachers and allows parents to be more involved in their child's academic progress. Grinberg provides examples of the different systems used by multiple schools as a replacement of traditional report cards. According to Grinberg, the new systems are being used in order replace the problem that periodic report cards are not giving parents enough insight about a child's progress …show more content…

Grinberg also points out the varying opinions given by parents of the new systems; consequently, a couple of parents are seeing the benefits to the detailed insight and a couple of other parents claim they rather keep the letter grades. In the end of the article, Grinberg acknowledges the common goal schools that use the new grading system have with the schools that rely on traditional report cards, the common goal schools share is to use a system that communicates to the parents on student learning on an ongoing basis and see academic progress among the students. As a student who went through years in the education system using a grading system that integrated both the traditional based system like report cards and standard based system with teacher commentaries, it would be ideal if there was a system that balances the traditional grading system and the standard based system. A combined system would provide parents the convenience that the standard based system provides with the use of technology and detailed feedback with communication between parents and teacher while maintaining the letter …show more content…

A merged system would allow parents and students to have the best of both worlds when it comes to a grading system. The American education system should aim to provide students and parents tools that would help a student progress academically the best way that they can without the tool itself standing as a limit to that achievement. Perhaps such a tool stands right under the education systems nose as the idea of a merged grading system, all it would take is for them to invest in the idea leading to the academic success of every student in

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