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There is a longstanding debate about whether traditional grading—letter grades based on a student’s content knowledge, classroom behavior, and extra credit—appropriately measures student success.

To offer students extra credit—that is the question. In fact, it’s an age-old question, one that some systems, liked standards-based grading, claim to answer by completely eliminating it. Personally, ...