Embedded Files
Every time you finish an assignment, your instructor will put a letter at the top of it. Your daily grade will be on the bottom of your Google Calendar. It will have two grades, Academic and Behavior. That letter tells you how well (or poor) you did on the assignment.
From A to F, you go from great to… well, not so great. But they also have a percentage behind them. And the percentage typically shows how many of the questions on a test you answered correctly, or how many requirements you met during the course.
For instance:
A - is the highest grade you can receive on an assignment, and it's between 90% and 100%
B - is still a pretty good grade! This is an above-average score, between 80% and 89%
C - this is a grade that rests right in the middle. C is anywhere between 70% and 79%
D - this is still a passing grade, and it's between 59% and 69%
F - this is a failing grade. No, wait, don’t cry! You just need to study harder!
Academic grading in the United States commonly takes on the form of five, six or seven letter grades. Traditionally, the grades are A+, A, A−; B+, B, B−; C+, C, C−; D+, D, D−; F; with A+ being the highest and F being lowest. *
Academic Grading
Academic Grading
Remember that nervous feeling on report card day as a kid? You spend all day with a racing mind wondering what grades you got. Straight As? Some Bs? Will Mom and Dad be mad about Cs and Ds? Or did I get any Fs?? Hold on…why isn’t there a grade E??
Well, the short answer is that F simply stands for “failure” on the grading scale since “failure” begins with the letter F. Teachers didn’t want E to be interpreted as “excellent” beyond primary school, as percentages come in when you’re in middle school, high school, and college. Poor lonely E!
TIMESTAMPS:
The short answer 0:25
“E” wasn’t always excluded 1:07
Other facts about U.S. schools:
Measurement System 2:41
Dress Codes and Uniforms 3:05
The Structure of the U.S. School System 3:47
The American Academic Year 4:43
America’s First School is Almost 400 Years Old! 5:33
Early U.S. “Academics” 6:12
Pre-School 6:40
The U.S. Workplace and Higher Education 7:23
Field Trips 7:54
School Sports 8:37
Relaxed Classroom Environment 9:24
Each State is Different 10:01
SUMMARY:
-F simply stands for “failure” on the grading scale since “failure” begins with the letter F. Teachers didn’t want E to be interpreted as “excellent” beyond primary school, as percentages come in when you’re in middle school, high school, and college.
-The first school to use a grading scale model similar to our modern one was a school in Massachusetts called Mount Holyoke College, an all-women’s university. In 1887, their scale went from A to E.
-The Standard Measurement System is still taught in schools, while the rest of the world uses the Metric System.
-Only about 20% of U.S. primary, junior, and high schools require uniforms.
-The U.S. school system starts with preschool, then kindergarten at the age of 5 and lasts till 12th grade at age 17 or 18.
-American students spend about 180 days a year in school.
-The original 13 American colonies opened The Boston Latin School, America’s first public school, in 1635.
-Early American schools didn’t teach subjects like reading or science; the early colonists wanted to teach their children more about family and community values.
-If parents want their child to “get ahead,” or just to acclimate them to a social learning situation, enrolling their child in pre-school at about 3 or 4 years old is considered ideal.
-About 85% of current jobs in the U.S., and 90% of new ones, require some college or post-secondary education.
-Most experienced U.S. teachers agree that field trips can and should be an integral part of a student’s education.
-Most schools offer football (the American kind), basketball, wresting, tennis, volleyball, softball, and baseball.
-Students and teachers often joke with each other, and exchange high-fives in the hallways.
-There will be differences in grading scales, testing requirements, class structure, rules…pretty much everything state to state.
Page updated
Google Sites
Report abuse