Failing Our Future: How Grades Harm Students, and What We Can Do about It

One of the most urgent and long—standing issues in the US education system is its obsession with grades. In Failing Our Future, Joshua R. Eyler shines a spotlight on how grades inhibit learning, cause problems between parents and children, amplify inequities, and contribute to the youth mental health crisis.

Eyler, who runs the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the U...