Arthur Chiaravalli interviews Barry Fishman, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Learning Technologies in the University of Michigan School of Information and School of Education. He has written a new introduction to the 50th-anniversary edition of Wad-Ja-Get: The Grading Game in American Education, one of the earliest critical examinations of the effects of traditional grading on student attitudes toward learning. Also, check out Dr. Fishman’s article “Going Gradeless Requires Both Addition and Subtraction.”