One ongoing challenge in education is finding the most effective way to evaluate student performance, whether through traditional percentage and letter grades or emerging nontraditional methods. This ...

Top school districts in the East Bay are adopting some of the core principles of this grading approach while scrubbing any ...

With a years-long shift to skills-based instruction and grading, this district found an unexpected outcome—an increase in AP ...

As a local educator, I see the same pattern every year: students with impressive GPAs walk into my classroom confident, capable and ready to work, at least on paper. But when it comes time to read ...

ROUND ROCK, Texas -- A new grading system is drawing protests from Round Rock parents. The system is called Standards Based Grading or SBG. Round Rock Independent School District officials say it will ...

(STACKER) – Formal education systems have been in place for thousands of years—from the earliest examples of China’s Xia dynasty schooling that began in 2070 B.C., to the robust, philosophically based ...

STAAR test scores out Friday show small gains in some districts, but overall the results show not much change in how students are performing. Some superintendents say new grading practices for the ...

Faculty and administrators at Western Oregon University are aiming to increase student retention rates and foster academic equity by changing the university’s grading system. The small regional ...

Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe has signed an executive order to simplify the grading scale used to measure school growth, ...

A multidisciplinary panel has developed a new severity grading system they believe can help standardize how healthcare professionals and patients communicate about acute allergic reactions. Using ...