Questioning the Practice of Grading in Schools (Robert Gressis and Kevin Currie-Knight)

<p>Robert Gressis (California State Northridge) and Kevin Currie-Knight (East Carolina University) hae a wide-ranging conversation about the (fraught?) relationship between schooling, learning, and A-F grading. The discussion centers around an essay Currie-Knight wrote called Against the Grade Economy: <a href="https://theelectricagora.com/2020/12/26/against-the-grade-economy/">https://theelectricagora.com/2020/12/26/against-the-grade-economy/ </a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>00:02:36 Rob and Kevin make small talk<br />00:07:01 Kevin describes and laments the grade economy<br />00:36:07 What's the relationship between grades and learning?<br />00:57:19 Bryan Caplan's "The Case Against Education" and how it has traumatized Rob<br />01:05:58 Unschooling<br />01:21:35 If schools sucks so much, how did Rob and Kevin learn?</p>