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 ...

Some school districts, including ones in Maine, New Mexico, Iowa and Oregon, are shifting to standards-based grading, where ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Johnston County school system returned to using traditional A through F letter grades for elementary school students in grades ...

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 ...

Most educators think that A through F or numeric grades aren’t a “very effective” way to reflect what students know and can do. So, what is the benefit of those systems? Why are these systems still in ...

A Raleigh middle school will return to traditional report card grades after ongoing parental complaints that they couldn’t understand how their children were doing under a modified grading system.

A recent survey of nearly 1,000 K-12 teachers found that about half had seen “equitable” grading policies used in their school or district and most reported the approach hurt academic engagement.

One ongoing challenge in education is finding the most effective way to evaluate student performance, whether through traditional percentage and letter grades or emerging nontraditional methods. This ...

When Avery Nixon started college in fall 2021 at Montclair State University in New Jersey, she was anxious about her writing proficiency after struggling academically in high school. But on her first ...

One of North Carolina’s largest school system has gone old school in how it grades its elementary school students. Johnston County was among the many North Carolina school districts that switched to ...