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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jerrid Kruse, Drake University (THE CONVERSATION) Some school districts, including ...