Teachers and school leaders can work together to ensure that report cards function as trustworthy indicators of what students ...

The Warrensville Heights City School District is the latest local school district to transition from letter grades to a standards-based grading system intended to wring personality issues and ...

Under the new system, students are graded on a 1–4 scale, with a score of 4 indicating performance above grade level for that ...

Apr. 13—Alette HahnHansen repeats a short phrase to keep herself motivated: "Oscar, doctor, president." The 17-year-old, a junior at Santa Fe High School, hopes to win an Oscar, earn a doctorate and ...

In Laurie Pennington’s science classes at Gunn High School, standards-based grading has tested students’ and parents’ firm attachment to traditional grades. This is the fourth year she’s used the form ...

Students in grades three through five are once again getting A through F grades after many parents said nontraditional ...

With the common-core transition in full swing, we are in the midst of a radical shift in how we think about our K-12 standards, curriculum, and instructional strategies. Districts are spending most of ...

Standards-based grading (SBG)—or competency-based grading—measures student progress relative to specific learning standards. This system of evaluation isolates the learning of content and mastery of ...

Some Minnesota educators are on a mission to take the guesswork out of grades. A growing number of school districts in the state and across the nation are looking at overhauling how they size up ...