Stop Grading Students On A Curve Summary

Why We Should Stop Grading Students on a Curve by Adam Grant, is about a professor who is dealing with grade inflation and deflation the problem with higher education. This professor promises to his students that he will never curve down but only up. He also tries to guide his student to work together while studding so that they will do better on the test. He was trying to get the student to work together so that they will all succeed instead of only a few. He gets them to support one another instead of working in competition against fellow classmates. In the fourth paragraph it says it limits the amount of students who can excel because, if they only allow the top 10 percent of the class to get A’s in a class of 50 that means only 5 could get them. So in this class if 20 of the 50 people get an A on the test, then only the top
I feel like this paragraph is important because of people being judgmental. If people knew before they had a presentation that they were not going to get judged or made fun of they would be more relaxed and this would result in a better presentation. I know this because this happens to me before every presentation I do I start getting really nervous because I don’t know anyone in the room, and if I knew that they wouldn’t be judged on any mistakes I made I wouldn’t hesitate to present my paper or project. If all classmates encouraged one another and had their classmates back, I feel like there would be a lot less stress in a classroom.
This article makes a lot of valid points and if many schools and colleges would take some of his ideas or the way he teaches it would result in an improved teaching environment for not only the teacher but for the students also. They would also see better test scores and a direct result of that a higher graduation