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Shapiro references a viral tweet where he expressed skepticism about the traditional education system’s fixation on grading and busy work, suggesting it obscures the true purpose—learning. His tweet garnered significant engagement, indicating a rising awareness that education's core focus should be on fostering understanding rather than ranking students.
He notes that many opponents worry about losing the ability to measure learning if grading is abandoned, but he counters that grading mainly ranks and sorts rather than truly assesses comprehension. Interestingly, support for ungrading and alternative approaches to assessment tends to originate from communities that question conventional pedagogy.