Ungrading - Reasons for it
Grades are obstacles to navigate, the assignment can be perceived as mere aid’s in completion, or tools for knowledge.
The US education system has taken center-stage in current politics, but the effectiveness of instruction has been criticized for decades. In Malcom Gladwell’s, Outliers: why some people succeed and some don’t, the shiny new objects for better schooling (new computers or more funding) distract from simple solutions. Students at KIPP schools make a bargain, in effect, their academic output will advantage them for life; hard work will reward them with success, unfounded in their parents socioeconomic class.
Conversations of testing, and other hierarchical bureaucracies aren’t considering the prime-directive of school… To facilitate knowledge acquisition. Educators have a responsibility to cultivate, to plant seeds of life (experiences and learning).
Abolish grades to improve mental health, to encourage student involment, and to cultivate knowledge.