{"id":728786,"date":"2024-07-09T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/?post_type=article&p=728786"},"modified":"2024-08-14T10:11:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T14:11:01","slug":"reinventing-report-cards-reading-writing-collaboration-and-other-work-skills","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/article\/reinventing-report-cards-reading-writing-collaboration-and-other-work-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Reinventing Report Cards: Reading, Writing, Collaboration and Other Work Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
A movement to throw out traditional A-F grades in favor of tracking high school students as they gain mastery of academic and life skills is gaining momentum, with five states and powerful players joining forces to advance it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The hope of the \u201cSkills for the Future\u201d collaboration is to make it easy for schools to treat so-called \u201cdurable\u201d skills such as critical thinking, teamwork and perseverance the same as traditional subjects like math and English. That includes giving students new tests and a new report card that shows how well they have mastered those other skills as they apply to colleges or jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The collaboration between the Educational Testing Service and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching started last year and added<\/a> five states this spring \u2014 Indiana, Nevada, North Carolina, Rhode Island and Wisconsin. The Mastery Transcript Consortium which has already built a mastery-based report card became part of ETS, the company that runs the SAT and GRE college admissions tests, in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n