{"id":54,"date":"2014-07-12T00:40:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T05:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teacherandlearner.net\/?p=54"},"modified":"2014-07-12T00:40:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T05:40:55","slug":"i-dont-grade-on-a-curve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teacherandlearner.net\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"I Don&#8217;t Grade on a Curve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life doesn&#8217;t grade on a curve. Your progress is not predicated on the progress of others. You either learn the lesson, or you repeat the lesson. It&#8217;s that simple. It doesn&#8217;t happen in life; and it doesn&#8217;t happen in my classroom. I refuse to perpetuate a culture of competition among students in a subject area that they ALL should MASTER. Be your own competitor! Let that last failed test be your competitor! Don&#8217;t look at what tests other people are passing. We can&#8217;t <em>all<\/em> get the best\u00a0grades in the class; but we can all be the best we can be. Your test is for your path. Their test is for their path. Do you!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not the only one who feels this way. Take a look at this <a title=\"Why Grading on the Curve Hurts\" href=\"http:\/\/teaching.monster.com\/benefits\/articles\/5658-why-grading-on-the-curve-hurts\">article<\/a>. Take it and apply it outside of the classroom. Peace!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life doesn&#8217;t grade on a curve. Your progress is not predicated on the progress of others. You either learn the lesson, or you repeat the lesson. It&#8217;s that simple. It doesn&#8217;t happen in life; and it doesn&#8217;t happen in my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/teacherandlearner.net\/?p=54\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3LryH-S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teacherandlearner.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teacherandlearner.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teacherandlearner.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teacherandlearner.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teacherandlearner.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/teacherandlearner.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/teacherandlearner.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teacherandlearner.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teacherandlearner.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teacherandlearner.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}