Elizabeth Gottfried: Scaling back

Regarding the Feb. 6 news article “ School grades reflect wealth”: How interesting that North Carolina applied a 15-point grading scale to its public schools when assessing their performance, yet kept its students at a burdensome 7-point scale disadvantage. On a measurement akin to that applied to the students, the schools would have fared far below the recently released “figures.”

Thankfully our students, starting next year, will have a 10-point scale more like the one used across the nation to prove their performance and show their skill level.

Elizabeth Gottfried

Raleigh

This story was originally published February 14, 2015 at 8:00 PM with the headline "Elizabeth Gottfried: Scaling back."