Grades...do you make the grade, use the grade, give the grade?

Well, I wrote about grading over at Home Educating Family Blog today.

Here's a taste:
The idea of grading as we currently think of it came from the development of the public education system. The standardized grading system we are most familiar with arrived on the scene at the same time as compulsory education and the industrial revolution. The great migration to the cities brought about changes including a factory model of education. It was a way educating a great number of individuals at the same time. You know, like mass production. It was an easy way to communicate how successful the student had been in learning what was needed to become a quality factory worker.
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