Questioning the Practice of Grading in Schools (Robert Gressis and Kevin Currie-Knight)

February 15, 2021 01:35:17
Questioning the Practice of Grading in Schools (Robert Gressis and Kevin Currie-Knight)
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Questioning the Practice of Grading in Schools (Robert Gressis and Kevin Currie-Knight)

Feb 15 2021 | 01:35:17

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Show Notes

Robert Gressis (California State Northridge) and Kevin Currie-Knight (East Carolina University) hae a wide-ranging conversation about the (fraught?) relationship between schooling, learning, and A-F grading. The discussion centers around an essay Currie-Knight wrote called Against the Grade Economy: https://theelectricagora.com/2020/12/26/against-the-grade-economy/

 

00:02:36 Rob and Kevin make small talk
00:07:01 Kevin describes and laments the grade economy
00:36:07 What's the relationship between grades and learning?
00:57:19 Bryan Caplan's "The Case Against Education" and how it has traumatized Rob
01:05:58 Unschooling
01:21:35 If schools sucks so much, how did Rob and Kevin learn?

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