{"id":3419,"date":"2018-05-26T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=3419"},"modified":"2025-02-26T07:00:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T12:00:47","slug":"no-grades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/no-grades\/","title":{"rendered":"No Grades? Doug Lemov Just Isn&#8217;t Having It&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve read Lemov&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Teach Like a Champion<\/em>, you know he focuses not on the <em>theoretical<\/em> but on the <em>practical<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AdobeStock_81881057_Credit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3422 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AdobeStock_81881057_Credit-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"no grades\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AdobeStock_81881057_Credit-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AdobeStock_81881057_Credit-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AdobeStock_81881057_Credit.jpg 793w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Lemov sees teachers doing something that works (he&#8217;s got a rigorous definition of &#8220;works&#8221;), then he thinks you should do that. When they do something that doesn&#8217;t work (ditto), he thinks you should stop.<\/p>\n<h2>No Grades, No Meritocracy?<\/h2>\n<p>Although lots of people champion doing away with grades, <a href=\"http:\/\/teachlikeachampion.com\/blog\/utopia-and-other-aristocracies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lemov strongly dissents<\/a>. In his view, the end of grades would inevitably result in the end of meritocracy.<\/p>\n<p>As you can imagine, his post has prompted a heated debate &#8212; much of it articulate and thoughtful. Check it out at the link above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although many experts argue that schools should have no grades, Doug Lemov strongly disagrees. His claim that the end of grades would preclude meritocracy has prompted a lively debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-3419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-classroom-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3419"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3425,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions\/3425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}