Late points are more of what we used to call “habits of work”; important soft skills, yes, but for our purposes, if the kid practiced for their summative skill demonstration, I’m happy, and ...

Education Missing homework, late assignments matter little as Oregon schools grade exclusively on academic mastery Updated: Sep. 07, 2013, 6:01 p.m. | Published: Sep ...

There are no more late assignments in his life, he said, and he’s not on the ICU list. “I got all my grades up, and I’m getting all my work done,” he said.

Late work penalties are almost always noted in the syllabus, and it’s hard to fight a grade reduction when things are clearly laid out in writing well before the homework is due.

I was especially pleased to learn that the policy helped some students focus on learning and doing their best work. One student noted, “ [I could] submit better assignments because I wasn’t as ...

And, assignments turned in after the due date but before the end of a teaching unit would have to be accepted for credit, though a student may still be penalized up to 10% for the late submission.