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Peters, Randal; Kruse, Jerrid; Buckmiller, Tom; Townsley, Matt – American Secondary Education, 2017
Variations of the question, "How are you doing in school?" are among those most frequently posed by adults to students (Reeves, 2004). Grades represent the primary source of that information; indeed, Olson (1995) called grades "one of the most sacred traditions in American education" (p. 24). There is so much trust in the…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Resistance (Psychology), Grading, Academic Standards
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Lumb, Anne – Journal of Education & Christian Belief, 2014
In the UK, inspectors are asked to judge how far schools support children's spiritual development. Church schools are subject to the differing expectations of a dual inspection system which introduces a tension between the Ofsted (Office for Standards in Education) prioritization of control and performativity and the SIAMS (Statutory Inspection of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spiritual Development, Religious Education, Protestants