Grading in most classrooms remains tied to rubrics devised by individual teachers and rooted in century-old practices. Recently, amid a broader national trend, grading systems in schools have come ...

The House Select Committee on Education Reform has recommended modifying the state’s A-F school performance grading system to include college readiness and learning opportunities as criteria.

The Northern Cass school district in North Dakota last spring graduated its first class of seniors who went through most of high school without receiving letter grades. Instead, their report cards ...

Educators attempting to implement standards-based grading and reporting encounter a range of challenges. Among the most significant is how to define the highest level of student performance on a ...

More schools are moving away from traditional points-based systems toward standards-based grading, which measures what students actually learn. This approach aims to increase transparency, help ...

Parents at three elementary schools in the Fort Worth Independent School District got their first look at a new grading system earlier this month — one that doesn’t use the letter grades parents and ...

Rick: Joe, we had a fascinating conversation a few weeks ago about “equitable grading.” As I noted, I’m pretty skeptical, given that I’ve encountered it as an attack on rigor and traditional academic ...