Education: No penalty for late work

In an historic decision, the Learning Resources Network (LERN) became the first national education association to say there should be no penalty for late work submitted by students.

The decision was made by the LERN Board of Directors in a meeting last month in San Francisco. The vote was 7-0-1  (one abstention). 

The motion was:  "To support the grading of students based on learning and knowledge rather than on behavior, including support for dropping penalties for late work." 

 Chair of the Board Paula Hogard of the University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, led the effort.  Hogard, born and raised in the United Kingdom, is doing extensive research on innovative teaching and learning for the 21st century in both England and the United States. 

  A webinar press conference will be held to announce the decision and rationale behind it.  We have a few copies of the LERN Staff Research Report  "From behavior to knowledge" that was prepared for Board members before the historic vote.  If you want to be one of the first to get one, email me at [email protected]

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[William Draves]

Latest news:
An Egyptian mathematics teacher is due to go on trial accused of beating an 11-year-old pupil to death because he did not do his homework.

[Gemi Powell]

Maybe there is more to life than doing things the way they have always been done. Maybe there is the possibility of success outside “box” or outside commonly accepted definition of a student. Maybe there is more than one way to teach or measure responsibility.

If something isn’t working in its current form, why in the world would anyone be opposed to making changes, trying something new, or trying a different way? Hey Erik Maybe spelling isn’t the key to life and maybe just maybe the way things have always been done isn’t the only correct, appropriate, or successful means or standard by which to educate.

[Richard]

The first question that came to mind is what about the lesson on responsibility? I agree that just reciting or producing papers or assignments by rote or cut and paste does not indicate learning. Not meeting and making deadlines indicates a lack of responsible behavior. What if this lack of timeliness transfers to their work? How do you think LERN customers would like it if you hired someone that did not make deadlines and they then kept your customers waiting? It would be a formula for business failure. Sorry but in the real world some things have to be done on time; if the worker is not wasting his employees time they are wasting the customers time.

[Erik]

It iz abowt time peepal wer graded onlee on thair nolej. I for won am glad that peepal juj me on my nolej and not on meye abilitee to spel. After all, spelin, like bein lait with asinements, iznt important. Huray for modurn educashun!

[Greg Marsello]

Recently one Ms. Melinda Foley-Marsello brought home a Resource Handbook by Barbara Swanson Sanders of the Bureau of Education & Research for a Bringing Boys and Books Together, Practical Activities and New Strategies that Motivate Boys to Read (Grades 3-8) workshop. Ms. Foley-Marsello urged me to turn to page 42 and guess what…Professors Draves and Coates are included reporting on Smart boys, bad grades in a report titled Tips for Teachers – For Helping Boys Learn.