grades and standardization

It be interesting to hear from managers themselves.

The thing is that standardization lowers the variability while raising the average (by streamlining what needs to be learned). So the average becomes higher (more people can read today than 100 years ago). But the smart people - those above average who would have learned to read anyway - feel that they are being pushed toward the average. Which for them, is lower. So I agree, grades do measure conformity to a standard. But do schools which don't use grades do any better (given the same inputs, ie, student and teacher pools and money allocation)? Replace reading with any other marketable skill, using the Internet, programming, etc, and the same applies.

Crazy On Tap - grades only measure your obedience to a manager