I don't think that the abolition of grading is a good idea. You need some way to communicate what someone has learned. Current grading systems are meaningless

I don't think that the abolition of grading is a good idea. You need some way to communicate what someone has learned. Current grading systems are meaningless. I can't hire someone with a perfect 4.0 and assume that they really know their stuff. The example I use all the time is from when I was in college taking subjects like physics and calculus. A few of us were very much hands-on kind of guys that grew up making things and generally connecting with the real world. Other students had never done anything beyond high-school science class. Never a splinter in their finger or trying to make balsa-wood contraption fly. There was a stark contrast between testing in math and physics because of this. There was a bunch of students that were test taking machines when it came to calculus. Always got A's. However, when it came time to apply that to a physics test they failed --sometimes miserably-- because there was no real understanding or knowledge. I find myself re-living some of that as I now help my kids learn science. Dad is no famous for taking the algebra explanation to the garage and grabbing a tape measure, some wood and a handsaw. The function y = x can have a myriad of different domain values depending on what it is you happen to be talking about. This is not what they teach in school and it certainly isn't what they are testing for. Anyhow, grades need to encode real knowledge. This is what I am striving for in the apps I am working on and hope that some day schools figure it out as well.