Grading

In my opinion, the purpose of grading is to show how well each student is understanding the teacher's lessons.  This can tell the teacher whether or not they need to embellish on the topic that is being taught.  The reason why we are graded out of 100 is because of the grading system out of 100%.  The traditional grading system doesn't accurately assess someones knowledge because they don't measure creativity.  The regular grading systems are working fine, but I definitely think that there should be opportunities to include creativity into grades as well.  This could work if it was used as an extra credit assignment or it was incorporated into science or history projects.  Grading is very important, and everyone has their own opinion on how it should be accomplished.

Creativity Crisis Article

I just read this really cool article about the creativity crisis.  The author of this article records "Overwhelmed by curriculum standards, American teachers warn there’s no room in the day for a creativity class."  It was talking about how America is slowly getting rid of classes like art and adding more math and English classes.  It also talked about how young children start out with a lot of creativity and they grow out of it.  It has been proven that when the same children have taken creativity tests as they grow older, their scores decrease.  This is the opposite of all of their other standardized test scores focused on academic subjects.
This creativity crisis in America can potentially stop new ideas and inventions from being developed.  It can cause us to lose our global standing in the area of development.  I believe that adding new art and music classes, as well as redesigning some of the curricula to focus on these classes will help rekindle the fading spark of creativity in America today.  We can also weave creative activities into the regular academic classes like math and science.
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DO IT NOW!!!     trust me...