Assignments and the associated grades represent one of the most powerful tools in our teaching repertoire. It takes great care and precision to design assessments, and how we measure and translate ...

“Adopting this new grading system has the potential to improve our academic culture by reducing competition between and among students, by focusing communication between students and faculty on ...

After two years of discussion, project team administrators, team leads and faculty advisors have begun a phase-out period of the letter grading system for project team credit courses. These changes to ...

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

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 ...

On April 4, 2024, posts began appearing online showing a graphic from an episode of the daytime talk show "Dr. Phil" that showed a "public school grading scale" far more lenient than what many ...

Prasad is a fourth-year medical student and public policy graduate student in Austin, Texas. A “quiet but consequential erosion of standards” is how a Republican Texas state senator described ...

January 8, 2026 - It's time for John Fensterwald's annual predictions for what's in store for education in 2026. Grading in most classrooms remains tied to rubrics devised by individual teachers and ...

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 ...