What Your Child’s Report Card Can (and Can’t) Tell You
As the leaves change color, we move from parent-teacher conference season to the first report card of the academic year. Schools use report cards to communicate student progress, and many families treat them as the measure of how well a child is doing. Report cards do their job well, but like any single measure, they can’t answer every question. Because they’re so common, it’s worth looking at what a report card can tell us and what it can’t.