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October 1994 | Volume 52 | Number 2

Reporting What Students Are Learning

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Feature Articles

Overview / We Can Do Better

Ron Brandt

The Mismatch Between Assessment and Grading

Marcia M. Seeley

Implementing a New Elementary Progress Report

Pamela Brown Clarridge and Elizabeth M. Whitaker

Assessment and Reporting: A Natural Pair

Doris H. Sperling

Making the Grade: What Benefits Students?

Thomas R. Guskey

A Lesson from Stacey

Chris Gustafson

Talking With Parents About Performance-Based Report Cards

Evelyn Kenney and Suzanne Perry

Toward Better Report Cards

Grant Wiggins

Grading: The Issue Is Not How But Why

Alfie Kohn

The Other Kind of Report Card: When Schools Are Graded

Richard M. Jaeger, Barbara E. Gorney and Robert L. Johnson

Will Mandating Portfolios Undermine Their Value?

Susan H. Case

Synthesis of Research / Portfolio Research: A Slim Collection

Joan L. Herman and Lynn Winters

A Portrait of Dennie Palmer Wolf

Mark F. Goldberg

Special Topics

How Emotions Affect Learning

Robert Sylwester

Myths About “Crack Babies”

Diane Barone

Response/Reply

Response / We Can Trust Creativity Tests

Bonnie Cramond

Reply / Why You Still Shouldn't Trust Creativity Tests

John Baer

Response / Lickona Promotes False Claims About Sex Education

William J. Bennetta

Reply / Directive Sex Education Is Our Best Hope

Thomas Lickona

Response / Why Schools Should Make Condoms Available to Teenagers

Alan Singer

Departments

Trends: English / Is Knowledge of Grammar Instinctive?

R. Baird Shuman

Voices: The Teacher / It Takes a Whole Village to Ruin A Child

Carol Burris

Voices: The Teacher / I Teach English Not Science!

Jim Burke

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