Grades and test scores are way out of whack in San Diego, reports Jakob McWhinney in Voice of San Diego.
At the School of Creative and Performing Arts, a magnet school, "96 percent of juniors passed science classes during the 2022-23 school year," but only 16 percent met state science standards, he writes. At Lincoln High, 86 percent of students passed English classes, but only 23 percent met English standards. The pass rate in math was 85 percent at Madison High; 13 percent met math standards.
Disparities between grades and test scores were greatest for math and science.
"San Diego Unified is part of a wave of districts that have ushered in standards-based grading," which is meant to "more equitable, especially for students from challenging backgrounds," writes McWhinney. Often students are allowed to turn in work late and retake tests.
Francine Maxwell, the former president of the San Diego chapter of the NAACP, said new grading standards have made an old problem worse. “There’s nothing like walking across that (graduation) stage and making your family proud and then going to college and thinking that that A or B (grade) was real and having to take remedial classes at the college level."
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