Inaccurate school and college grading is now damaging the economy. The obsolete grading system denies college to 2 million smart students every year.
In just the last few months, we are now seeing the effects to the economy and society.
-Colleges closing an average of once a week.
-Over a million fewer students in college since 2014.
-Not enough engineers to run the new micro-chip factories.
-Food animal disease scares due to the shortage of veterinarians.
-Illegal immigration of highly skilled workers up seven-fold over 2019.
-Shortage of Public Defense attorneys in rural areas.
And now faculty layoffs join the list.
Join Effort to Grade Fair
Join the effort to change the grading system to grade solely on learning and knowledge. Our current system, a product of the factory age in the last century, includes irrelevant behavior in grading. In addition to being irrelevant to learning, that behavior has no impact on productivity in the workplace.
Left out: 19 Million Smart Students
In the classic work on the issue, Dr. Nancy Cole as President of the Educational Testing Service found that only 46% of students were given grades appropriate to their learning and knowledge. A whopping 28% of students were given grades significantly worse than their learning knowledge.
This has resulted in 19 million smart students being denied college over the past 20 years. A “smart student” is someone who knows the same, or more, than college students and college graduates.
To find out more, and join the LERN Board of Directors in supporting the new grading system of the 21st Century, just click here.
