Maryland’s largest school system just made it easier for high school students to get A’s.
Just months after deciding to eliminate traditional final exams, Montgomery County has announced
significant changes to its method of calculating grades starting in the
2016-2017 school year, most notably that final course grades will be
rounded up after a student’s two quarterly grades are averaged. If a
student gets, say, an A for the first quarter in geometry and then a B
for the second quarter, the student’s semester course grade would be an
A. If a student gets an A in one quarter and then a D in the next
quarter, they would end up with a B.
The move is a departure from
the county’s previous grading scheme, which generally relied on a
student’s two quarter grades and a final exam grade. When a course had
no final, the grading trendline prevailed, so that if students slumped
from an A in one quarter to a B in the next, their semester grade fell
to a B. No longer...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/an-easy-a-under-new-rules-these-high-school-students-could-see-grades-soar/2016/05/11/6f3e2a5a-16f2-11e6-9e16-2e5a123aac62_story.html
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