Standards-based grading provides parents with more comprehensive assessments of how students are doing. It goes beyond ...

When it comes to grading, most students have grown up with letter-based report cards, which place heavy emphasis on not only submitted work and test performance, but also participation and work ethic.

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 ...

This post originally appeared on the Otus blog and is republished here with permission. Grading reform is messy, but it’s worth it. That was the central message from Jessica Espinoza and Alice ...

(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 ...

The standard student report card -- with traditional grades of A, B and C -- may soon be a thing of the past in Buffalo. In its place, a school district committee proposes a five-page "standards-based ...

It's too early for even a pass-fail grade, but a report card reform idea by a Buffalo School District committee deserves serious consideration. The committee wants to change grading to a five-page ...

Some school districts, including ones in Maine, New Mexico, Iowa and Oregon, are shifting to standards-based grading, where students are graded on the skills and concepts they learn instead of points ...