It's so easy. Just do it.

I was listening to a discussion between a journalist and a mother about the school experiences of her highly-autistic daughter. The takeaway from the mother's position is that the school was wrong, was doing bad things and was harming her daughter. They should accept the child and let her be. What was missing of course was any consideration of everyone else in the picture, particularly the teachers.

Nothing new under the sun - now it's equitable grading

Yesterday I was sent this article* and was not surprised to see yet another example of re-inventing the wheel in education, re-naming it, claiming credit and then monetizing it. This time it concerned evaluation and grading and the new name for the old hat is equity or equitable grading.