The New York Times
February 16, 2008
Author: Maura J. Casey
This article is about how schools in Hartford are changing the report cards from not just a simple letter grade for each subject, but "Now, in schools in Hartford, that 10-year-old would-be athlete is being graded on how he or she “establishes and maintains a healthy lifestyle by avoiding risk-taking behavior.” In music class, students are being graded on how they make “connections between music and other disciplines through evaluation and analysis of compositions and performances.” Some report cards are as long as seven pages long and cover 58 academic, social, and behavioral skill. The author explains that the language that the report cards use to explain the students behaviors is extremely hard to understand. She says that she is a parent and she has always appretiated the basics of knowing how her child is doing in school. It is obvious that the author does not support the new way of the report cards because she that if the information is not presented simply, then it will just create more barriers. This article did not really persuade me in any way to believe one side of the argument or the other; it only explained what she likes and dislikes.
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I think this article is rather interesting. But from your review it seems that the author did not do the greatest job givving out all the information. I think the author was bias and should have given more researched evidence of what the parents and students thought.
I don't know how the instructor will feel about the fact that i just wrote a blog on this same exact article. i didn't see that you had used the same one until after i posted it, so sorry if i'm stepping on your feet. I think it was a great article and i agree with the author. report cards should stick to being REPORTS, not mental evaluations, on stuff that doesn't involve school.
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