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2020-10-19 Science & Technology

Despite pandemic, teens faring better with more sleep and family time: study

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-10-19 04:11|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 San Diego Unified School District Changes Grading System to ‘Combat Racism'

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-10-19 04:14|| 2020-10-19 04:14|| Front Page Top

#2 SD Unified has struggled with academic performance, decides that's unnecessary. Try and get into college, idiots

Posted by Frank G 2020-10-19 06:16|| 2020-10-19 06:16|| Front Page Top

#3 We already have way too many people going to college and getting worthless BA degrees. I predict that eventually (maybe sooner rather than later with the covid virus) college enrollment will drop--which means less pressure in the K-12. What this all means for K-12 is less clear...but a lot of this stuff may wind up being irrelevant.

Posted by Tom 2020-10-19 08:50|| 2020-10-19 08:50|| Front Page Top

#4 I predict that eventually (maybe sooner rather than later with the covid virus) college enrollment will drop

Easy prediction - shotgun, fish, barrel:
First-Year College Enrollment Plummets 16%

Posted by Pliny Speaking for Boskone1165 2020-10-19 09:03|| 2020-10-19 09:03|| Front Page Top

#5 I never could understand why school graded on a curve, just grade on mastering the subject matter.

Either one understand the subject or they don't, grade accordingly, not grade in comparison to other students.

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2020-10-19 15:02|| 2020-10-19 15:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Many foreign-born professors in our college math department graded on a curve because they didn't know how to teach, and failing 80-100% of the class might expose that fact.

Posted by Vernal Hatrick 2020-10-19 15:08|| 2020-10-19 15:08|| Front Page Top

#7 #6 - I had a professor like that in 1970 - wanted to give a third-year engineering class 20 F's and 10 D's. I did all the work before the first exam and got 42/100 - the class average. The next time I opened the book was the night before the second hour exam, and I got 40/100 - two points less than the class average.

The Dean got him to bump everyone up one grade - 20 C's and 10 D's. I got a C or a D, but made the Dean's list the next semester.

Posted by Bobby 2020-10-19 16:30|| 2020-10-19 16:30|| Front Page Top

#8 After Patterson expressed concerns at this week’s meeting, the board will also review potential student disparities stemming from its zero-tolerance disciplinary policy on cheating in the coming weeks.

Eh, can you run that past me again? Are they going to allow cheating? Or perhaps allow it for only people of a certain skin color? (more likely)

Posted by CrazyFool 2020-10-19 16:40|| 2020-10-19 16:40|| Front Page Top

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