This just means that if I'm in charge of hiring for some company, when I review high school transcripts I have to automatically mark down the grades on POCs by at least 10 percent in order to fairly compare them to applicants of other skin colors.
Many OPRFHS teachers are successfully exploring and implementing more equitable
grading practices such as: utilizing aspects of competency-based grading, eliminating zeros
from the grade book, and encouraging and rewarding growth over time.
I thought competency-based grading meant grading based on who demonstrated the best competency with the material.
Oak Park and River Forest High School will establish a Philosophy of Grading that reflects a
rigorous, meaningful, and evidence-based process by which student learning is understood.
And, once again, my ignorance is showing. All these years since I started school, I always thought that a rigorous, meaningful, and evidence-based process by which student learning is understood meant being able to pass the tests. Changing students' grades arbitrarily does not strike me as being at all rigorous, meaningful, or evidence-based.
Question: Does eliminating zeros from the grade book mean that if a black student scores 70, the teacher marks it as 7? Or does it mean that if a white student scores a 90 the teacher marks it as a 9?
