More high schools ditching final exams

Weskid
Tue, 29 May 2007 12:08:35 +0000

I think this is really cool, if they do it right. My school (private, very progressive Dewey-esque philosophy) didn’t have final exams. At all. In fact, I never had ANY exams in my English classes, just portfolios. Parents and students alike would always worry that we wouldn’t be prepared for taking finals in college, but most people make the adjustment pretty well. I had no problems (of course, being a humanties student, most of my finals were final papers anyway, very reminiscent of final portfolios)