{"id":85624,"date":"2019-10-17T12:12:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T16:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=85624"},"modified":"2019-10-17T07:45:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T11:45:14","slug":"wsj-the-new-parental-obsession-checking-kids-grades-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=85624","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) The New Parental Obsession: Checking Kids\u2019 Grades Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers report mixed feelings about online grade books. Sean Riley, a high-school teacher in Seattle, said students and parents can become so focused on the metrics that they lose sight of the bigger picture. \u201cIt starts to turn learning into a series of tasks to be completed instead of a process of exercises to learn more,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Obsessive grade-checking is also symptomatic of the desire, peculiar to a generation that has grown up with everything just a swipe away, to receive instant gratification. Mr. Riley said this can lead to anxiety and disappointment in some students.<\/p>\n<p>The upside is when students use the information to advocate for themselves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-new-parental-obsession-checking-kids-grades-online-11571131801\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Parents try to control the urge to check their kids\u2019 grades all the time, but some can\u2019t help themselves <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zHfGS2bd1M\">https:\/\/t.co\/zHfGS2bd1M<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WSJ\/status\/1184076542089027584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers report mixed feelings about online grade books. Sean Riley, a high-school teacher in Seattle, said students and parents can become so focused on the metrics that they lose sight of the bigger picture. \u201cIt starts to turn learning into<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=85624\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,175,101,111,168,177,129,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-children","category-education","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85624"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85627,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85624\/revisions\/85627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}