On Wednesday, the State Board of Education approved a new grading system for students that will gauge a student’s performance on assessment tests every year. The new guidelines will set scale scores ...

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

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

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

Several years ago, during a one-on-one conversation with an art teacher at the middle school where I was principal, I came to an unsettling realization. We were wrestling with the fact that our ...

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 ...