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Posted May 26, 2010 in California Educator

When it comes to having marks alongside letter grades, there are, of course, pluses and minuses. Sierra College has gone back and forth on this policy and currently doesn’t allow them. So a student...

Posted June 01, 2009 in California Educator

Update: CUTA grading victory

In the March 2009 issue of California Educator we reported that a Superior Court judge ruled earlier this year that administrators violated the law by changing the final grades of 89 students attending...

Posted December 14, 2011 in Site Pages

Grading in a Standards-Based Education System

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Posted March 31, 2009 in California Educator

Court backs teachers' rights to determine grades

The Education Code plainly states that teachers have the right to determine a student’s final grade. And that right was upheld recently when a Superior Court Judge ruled that administrators violated...

Posted May 26, 2010 in California Educator

Should grading be more consistent?

Some universities, including Stanford Law School, Yale University and UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law, have dropped letter grades and shifted to other forms of evaluation, such as “honors,”...

Posted December 14, 2011 in Site Pages

Measuring Teacher Effectiveness

CTA President David A Sanchez responded this week to the controversial Los Angeles Times article, Grading the Teacher:...

Posted May 27, 2010 in California Educator

Making the grade

A number of schools in California have bid farewell to D’s and F’s. Some have gotten rid of pluses and minuses. And others have eliminated traditional report cards with letter grades altogether,...

Posted December 14, 2011 in Site Pages

CTA President David A. Sanchez's response to the controversial Los Angeles Times article

"Publishing the database assembled by the LA Times as an accurate measure of teacher effectiveness or even as a 'value-added'

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Posted March 23, 2011 in California Educator

A new twist on tests

As teachers are getting ready to have students pull out No. 2 pencils for standardized tests, Del Norte High School in Crescent City has figured out a controversial way to make the tests relevant...

Posted February 29, 2012 in California Educator

'I am not a robot'

An online teacher speaks out.

When the Chino Champion published the editorial “Don’t teachers count anymore?” — a newspaper piece critical of online learning, which referred...

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