>This is not a new idea. You know when your kid is in Kindergarten and they show you his “portfolio” and that is how he is measured…this is “portfolios” for high school students.
There are several issues with this, the first being that a child’s grade is already measured by class work, class participation, group work and the midterm and final. Midterms and Finals in Ridgewood High are only a portion of a child’s grade already(25-40%), so implementing this doesn’t make sense since there is already a “blended” grading system in effect.
The down side is that by removing standard midterms and finals they are eliminating the “test” that 1)ensures that all teachers teach the same content 2)ensures kids get ready for real midterms and finals in college 3)ensures students and parents have leverage if the class participation and “group work” is marked low but the midterm and final grades are high they can lobby for a decent grade.
This is a stupid trend that is not used in any top tier college. When they do it in Harvard, then Ridgewood should adapt it. Otherwise they are buying into a fad presented by a private consulting group who charged them tons of money for training in the concepts. Grant Wiggins is not a nonprofit think tank, it’s like the EST of education.
Ask the President of Princeton if she’s using any Grant Wiggins there…really this is absurd.
>There goes those parents again – wanting their kids to “attend college” and one as prestigious as Princeton.
The school and BOE are trying to ensure your kids a lifelong learners …
not college ready material ..
>My kids were born lifelong learners, thank you.
Now I’d like my school to teach my fractured kids using deconstructive techniques, and then use inauthentic testing to find out how well they learned.
That’s all I ever wanted from the schools, and not a drop more. Why can’t they just give us what they’re supposed to give us, instead of all this fluff?
>12:40pm
because then they would have to work and then they wouldn’t feel so important
>this is a disgusting our once great school system reduced to this ,welcome the section 8 housing next…
>That’s what you get when liberals are left to rule. Government systems in full decline.