{"id":1105641,"date":"2021-12-10T09:58:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T14:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1105641"},"modified":"2021-12-10T09:58:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T14:58:30","slug":"california-school-districts-dropping-d-and-f-grades-will-help-pandemic-era-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-school-districts-dropping-d-and-f-grades-will-help-pandemic-era-students\/","title":{"rendered":"California School Districts: Dropping D and F Grades Will Help Pandemic Era Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcalifornia-school-districts-dropping-d-and-f-grades-will-help-pandemic-era-students%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1105641&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1229414803-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Some schools in California are using social justice tactics to try to repair the damage done to school-age children over the past almost two years of coronavirus lockdowns and remote learning.<\/p>\n<p>That includes the Los Angeles Unified, Oakland Unified, Sacramento City Unified, San Diego Unified and other districts are phasing out grades below a C for high school students.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The plan is meant to \u201cre-engage\u201d students but also help them get accepted into public colleges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur hope is that students begin to see school as a place of learning, where they can take risks and learn from mistakes, instead of a place of compliance,\u201d Nidya Baez, assistant principal at Fremont High in Oakland Unified, said in a ABC report. \u201cRight now, we have a system where we give a million points for a million pieces of paper that students turn in, without much attention to what they\u2019re actually learning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ABC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/\">reported<\/a> on the development:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote readability=\"29\">\n<p>If a student fails a test or doesn\u2019t complete their homework, they\u2019ll be able to retake the test and get more time to turn in assignments. The idea is to encourage students to learn the course material and not be derailed by a low grade that could potentially disqualify them from admission to the University of California and California State University. Students who don\u2019t learn the material, pass the final exam or finish homework by the end of the semester would earn an \u201cincomplete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although education reform advocates have been pushing for this for years, the pandemic offered an opportunity for districts to put it into action. With so many students languishing academically after a year of distance learning, districts see dropping D\u2019s and F\u2019s as a way to help students who had been most impacted by the pandemic, especially Black, Latino and low-income students.<\/p>\n<p>But the move is also, potentially, a step toward an entirely different learning system, in which students are assessed by what they\u2019ve learned, not how well they perform on tests on a given day or whether they turn in their homework on time. Known as competency \u2014 or mastery-based learning \u2014 the style has been a staple of some private and charter schools for years, and a goal for education reformers trying to overhaul the traditional high school system.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Some educational officials have praised the idea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need a system that gets beyond the institutional model and provides more meaningful feedback for students,\u201d Devin Vodicka, former superintendent of Vista Unified in San Diego County and chief executive of the Learner-Centered Collaborative, said. \u201cThe future is going to require less focus on time and more focus on what we can do and contribute, and the quality of our performance. We need to prepare our students for this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut for some teachers, Ds and Fs play an important role in the classroom,\u201d NBC reported. \u201cThey signal that a student did not learn the material and needs extra help. Dropping Ds and Fs doesn\u2019t guarantee that students will learn the material, even with extra help, and may lead to grade inflation, said Debora Rinehart, a math and science teacher at St. Theresa School, a Catholic school in Oakland.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.2336448598131\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Common Core has been a disaster. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nmWkNSOuhF\">https:\/\/t.co\/nmWkNSOuhF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1254979928031985664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI will work with any student before or after school or even on the weekend to help them learn. However, I will never lie about their knowledge level,\u201d she said. \u201cNot reporting Ds and Fs is the equivalent of lying about a student\u2019s progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laura Schwalm, a retired superintendent of Garden Grove Unified who is now chief of staff of California Education Partners, said grading should be designed for students to gain admission to the University of California and California State Universities, as well as admission to trade schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGraduating with a D, in career and technology courses, too, leaves students with few choices,\u201d she said. \u201cNo one is saying water down grades. This is about giving support, not lowering standards, and looking for simple ways to make grading more fair, to give kids a fighting chance and to measure what students know with multiple opportunities to show that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Penny Starr on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PennyStarrDC\">Twitter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some schools in California are using social justice tactics to try to repair the damage done to school-age children over the past almost two years of coronavirus lockdowns and remote &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}