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A Letter to the Editor from Rick Wormeli
Recently, several letter writers to the Forest City Summit, an Iowa newspaper, have disparaged standards-based grading. Specifically, they disparaged Rick Wormeli's work in that field. As a result, Mr. Wormeli wrote a response to those letter-writers, and the newspaper agreed to run it.
While I am personally unfamiliar with the events in Forest City Schools, IA that led to these letters being written, public arguments like this over grading issues always cause…
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