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Podcast: Tests and the Rest: College Admissions Podcast
Episode: Reinventing The High School Transcript
Description: 21st century high schools teach different subjects in different ways integrating entirely different standards, guidelines, and technology. So why do they still use a 19th century grading system? Amy and Mike invited educator and author Jonathan E. Martin to learn about models of reinventing the high school transcript. What are five things you will learn in this episode? Why and how is the current HS transcript broken? Why now, why is now the time to reinvent the HS transcript, when it has been unchanged in over a century? What would be the features of a new t...