Fair Isn't Always Equal Chapter 14

Chapter fourteen of Fair Isn’t Always Equal connects with chapter thirteen, in that it is about report card formats. Chapters thirteen and fourteen both have to do with the final product of assessment; the only difference is that one is what mostly teachers see, and the other is what mostly parents see. The quote at the beginning of the chapter is very telling to me. In it, Linda Starr writes about the different ways teachers and parents perceive report cards. In the teacher’s mind, the report card is a report of how the student is progressing; the learning process is a continuous spectrum, and as long as the student is constantly bettering herself, everything is okay. However, to the parent’s mind, this is not enough. The parent wants to know how their child is doing when compared to everyone else’s children. This doesn’t seem healthy to me. I think there needs to be better communication between educators and parents, so the parents can really know what the teacher is trying to do with grades.