There was a story in The Wall Street Journal in late April that should concern parents across America. It wasn't about inflation or the peril facing regional banks: It was more serious than that. It ...

Grades are a standard part of the American educational system that most students and teachers take for granted. But what if ...

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

Many teachers complain that inflated grades, reduced homework and quick-and-easy credit recovery courses are leaving holes in students’ educations. I was convinced that the only reason superintendents ...

Oregon education officials are quietly reviving a reform-minded method of grading focused on how well students master specific academic skills while de-emphasizing other traditional measures, like ...

Ensuring grades are fair and meaningful is not as easy as A, B, C (or D or F). As they address the lingering affects of the COVID-19 pandemic, districts are struggling to square fairness and ...

In the fall of 2020 the San Diego Unified School Board decided to transform the way it grades middle and high school students in an effort to be more equitable to all members of the student body. The ...

Las Vegas high-school English teacher Laura Jeanne Penrod initially thought the grading changes at her school district made sense. Under the overhaul, students are given more chances to prove they ...

While San Francisco's recently halted equity grading scheme sparked national uproar and derision, the real lesson of this fiasco is the near-total lack of transparency in the school district's ...

The Clark County School District gutted its grading policy to keep kids from receiving failing grades. Almost a quarter of students had at least one “F” anyway. In the spring 2022 semester, 23.3 ...

Teachers at Flushing High School claim the school’s grading system is forcing them to pass students who are actually failing ...

Educators spend countless hours thinking about grades, talking about them, and doing the work involved in giving them. Many posts on this topic have appeared here over the years, and I’m sure more ...