Evolution in education
Report books through the years
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Jolene Ang
Whether neatly printed and put in clear folders as is the case today or painstakingly written by hand as they were decades ago, report books have long been the twice-yearly indicator of a student's smarts.
Some things have changed, though. In the past, unlike today, marks for certain subjects were broken down. In mathematics, for example, there were branches such as arithmetic, algebra and geometry.
