Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: No grade lower than 60 In this school system, teachers are not allowed to give a student a grade lower than 60. How do you feel about this grading policy? It is claimed to be research-based. Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) This is a lot like giving every participant a trophy. It sounds nice, but the reality is that there are winners and losers. Learning how to lose is just as important as learning how to win. We all lose at some point. Hopefully we learn from the experience. When we don't allow our students to fail, we are not being real with them. This "research-based" strategy is mostly aimed at lowering the achievement gap, but most research indicates that the more we intentionally try to lower the achievement gap by lowering standards, the gap increases.