In 2011, I had served as the school improvement officer in Decatur Illinois, where the high schools were ranked at the bottom 5% of schools in the State. The talented staff took on the emotional filled topic of grading reform. 

1. A student may ask a teacher to redo an assignment in which they either failed or wished to improve upon a grade
2. Teacher has total discretion as to when and how this redo can be accomplished
3. The teacher determines if the redo, after teacher feedback, is the same assignment or a different assignment if it is comparable in content to the original assessment
4. It is at the teacher’s discretion, if the student improves on the said assignment, to either give the student a bump up of one letter grade or more if the student has significantly advanced his/her mastery of the topic
5. The teacher has the right to deny a redo if it is felt that the student did not take the original assessment seriously or is attempting to “buy more time”

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