rethinking the practice of grading

From Degrading to De-Grading: a damn good essay by Alfie Kohn on why the practice of grading student work is destructive to learning. If you teach, or if you are involved in teaching in any way, please read it.

(Yeah, it’s from 1999, but I just discovered it today—thanks to Michele Martin at The Bamboo Project.)

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