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Students at Prospect Heights are expected to learn a lot. Prospect Heights isn’t a school where children can get high grades by being good and getting along, Cogar says. They must demonstrate mastery of specific skills before they can pass.
Report cards are issued four times a year with two sets of grades—there are separate marks for skills and for effort / cooperation. Teachers also send home interim reports to keep parents informed about the child’s progess. Each of these is sent halfway through each marking period at the discretion of the teacher. Parent conferences are encouraged at any point.
Cogar says the teachers’ curriculum guide lists all the skills to be taught and items to test. He calls the concept “mastery learning”—a child must master each level of learning before he moves on to the next, an idea taken from “Bloom’s Taxonomy”. The learning must be permanent, not just absorbed until test time. “Regression" tests are given to see whether a student retains material from earlier in the unit. The student must be able to apply the material, not just memorize a series of facts.
And that’s for a bare passing grade. “A”s and “B”s come to those who are capable of synthesis and evaluation. That goe.s beyond knowing that a noun is a “person, place or thing.” That goes beyond even writing ten sentences using nouns. It means judging
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