‘The Future of Grading is Antiracist’

So claims Benjamin Johnson, who currently serves as one of the five vice principals at my high school. A former college Division II fullback who looks as if he could literally carry the weight of the world on his broad shoulders, at fifty years old Johnson still cuts a striking figure. He and I were once teaching colleagues in the same department, even sharing a classroom for a time, before he moved on to a leadership role in the building. Johnson finished the coursework for a doctorate of education several years ago but has not yet completed his dissertation. In a wide-ranging conversation conducted with me over Zoom earlier this fall, Johnson began by describing evolution in how he viewed assessing students — an evolution motivated in part by this summer’s racial reckoning compounded by the ongoing pandemic. Afterward, I followed up via email to ask him several additional questions and to clarify some of his statements. <a href="https://medium.com/the-faculty/the-future-of-grading-is-antiracist-96d60f1fd432">Click Here</a>