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Summary Of From Degrading To De Grading By Alfie Kohn

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In “From Degrading to De-Grading,” Alfie Kohn criticizes current grading systems and their alleged harm to students. Kohn first lists three main problems with grading and then adds seven more. In summary, grading results in students showing little interest in learning, students choosing easier assignments, and less creative students (p. 254-255). The next seven points expose grading as unreliable, distracting, and tedious. Grading also incites cheating and ruins relationships between students and teachers (p. 255-257). Unfortunately, despite knowing nine reasons to rid schools of grading, teachers opt to keep the grading system. “They want to know why you’re making trouble” (p. 257). As an excuse teachers claim students prefer grading and grading

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