Tag: Sweeping Changes

Jun 04

Real Life

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Ed News, Grades & HW
June 4, 2012

We talk a lot about preparing our students for real life. We entice them with the reward of high marks (A’s, 100%’s, 3’s and 4’s) and we threaten them with failure (F’s, 0’s, 1’s and 2’s). It’s easy to think that enticing kids with high marks works because of the kids who work hard for …

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