And there could be different levels of mastery. Instead of saying a student earned a certain grade in Spanish 2, the mastery transcript might say the student can understand and express ideas in some number of languages.
It would not include courses or grades, but levels of proficiency in various areas. The group is called the Mastery Transcript Consortium, and the product it hopes to create is the mastery transcript. Along the way, the group hopes to use the ideas of competency-based education - in which demonstration of mastery matters and seat time does not - to change the way high schoolers are taught. And then the plan could spread - over perhaps a decade - to public high schools as well.
Organizers believe that if more than 100 such elite private schools embrace a new transcript, they will attract supporters in higher ed who will embrace the approach for fear of losing top applicants (both in terms of their academics and ability to pay). The organizers of the effort believe all kinds of high schools and colleges are ready for change, but they argue that it will take the establishment to lead this particular revolution. But the idea is from a group with considerable clout and money: more than 100 private schools around the country, including such elite institutions as the Dalton School and the Spence School in New York City, plus such big guns as the Cranbrook Schools in Michigan, the Phillips Academy in Massachusetts and Miss Porter's School in Connecticut. That's the ambition of a new education reform movement, which wants to rebuild how high schools record the abilities of students - and in turn to change the way colleges evaluate applicants. What if traditional high school transcripts - lists of courses taken, grades earned and so forth - didn't exist?
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