By Greta Anderson, Inside Higher Ed
Hundreds of high schools across the country have expressed interest in ditching letter grades and grade point averages for the mastery transcript, an interactive display of students’ work that’s attractive to colleges looking for a well-rounded, nonnumerical evaluation of applicants. The Mastery Transcript Consortium began its movement in 2017, with a list of 100 private high schools across the country agreeing to pilot letter-grade-less transcripts. As of July 2019, 278 U.S.-based and international member schools — 20 percent of them public — have signed on, and more than 15 schools will begin testing a prototype of the mastery transcript with students this coming school year.
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