Opinion: Let’s reconsider how we do high school

...We are facing an unprecedented pandemic. We are also facing a once-in-a-century opportunity to reconsider how we do high school. We need to reconsider what young people need to learn and be able to do going forward.

For any of this to happen, we must begin by distancing ourselves from old ways, for example:

1. Standardized tests as they exist today. We were only two weeks into this lockdown when colleges began suspending SAT/ACT requirements for next year. What say we suspend them forever?
2. School rankings. They are all flawed. The formula behind Jay Mathews’ Challenge Index was laughably simplistic. U.S. News and World Report’s methodology is excruciatingly convoluted. More than flawed, they are toxic. They reinforce inequality and stubborn school boundaries.
3. The 4.0 grade-point system. Toss it. It’s a relic of the 20th, no, the 19th century. The system has completely lost meaning.

Will anything be left? Plenty...

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