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Therefore, due to the issues and inaccuracies of letter grading the United States public school system should eliminate them. (Specify)

The letter grading system has administrative benefits at the expense of student stress (Marzano). Letter grades pressure students to perform well but shift the focus to obtaining a good grade instead of fully learning the material (Long). (Find stats)-(https://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/work_in_progress/2014/11/students_react_to_a_classroom_.html)

Grades defeat the purpose of learning for self-interest which is ironic because students tend to perform better when they are fascinated with the material they are learning (Kohn). (find stats)-(https://psych.wisc.edu/cmsdocuments/CompassHH.pdf)

Too often competition for higher grades leads to students feeling like they are intellectually inferior to others as letter grades come to define how smart they are (Kohn). (find stats)-(https://www.jstor.org/stable/23900414?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents)

memories that have mastered the school system and short-term learning or the hard-working student that spends a majority of their time trying to keep good grades through intensive studying. (find stats)

The letter grade favors students with great memories, shifts the focus from learning to obtaining a high grade, represent student’s performance in a one dimensional way, and are created by administrators who prioritize student evaluate and organization over true student learning. (find stats)

This depends on the teacher grading the work as grading policies differ. Because different teachers can weigh the parts of assignments differently students grades could subjectively be different. (find stats)

Grades encourage cheating. Again, we can continue to blame and punish all the students who cheat — or we can look for the structural reasons this keeps happening. Researchers have found that the more students are led to focus on getting good grades, the more likely they are to cheat, even if they themselves regard cheating as wrong” (Kohn). (find stats)

Standards-based grading is more informative than the traditional report card as feedback is more detailed. (cite) (http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational_leadership/oct08/vol66/num02/Seven_Reasons_for_Standards-Based_Grading.aspx)

“Grading enables teachers to communicate the achievements of students to parents and others, provide incentives to learn, and provide information that students can use for self-evaluation.” (cite) (http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/oct94/vol52/num02/Making-the-Grade@-What-Benefits-Students%C2%A2.aspx)

A good teacher can make the difference between a student easily getting an “A” because they have a thorough understanding of the material or struggling to keep a basic understanding. (cite) (https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/how-teaching-makes-a-difference-in-students-lives)