Members of our Community Editorial Board, a group of community residents who are engaged with and passionate about local issues, respond to the following question: As schools and districts continue to ...

Mayor Bloomberg already handed out his letter grades to schools. Now, the president of the United Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, is preparing her own report card system. Ms. Weingarten had ...

Following a formal vote last month by the Faculty Senate, Penn State announced Wednesday that it will reimplement its alternative grading system this semester “to support and provide flexibility” for ...

Fairview High language arts teacher and instructional coach Sarah Zerwin wants her students less focused on a grade and more on taking risks and becoming better writers. To make that happen, she ...

An empty classroom at Henry M. Gunn High School in Palo Alto on April 3, 2020. Phoro by Magali Gauthier. “Evidence-based” grading, a grading system that focuses on a student’s growth rather than test ...

WARRENSVILLE HEIGHTS, Ohio – For decades, K-12 students have gotten report cards, loaded with letter grades, indicating their performance in each subject. But times are changing. A’s B’s and C’s (and ...

Robert Talbert is a math professor, so numbers are his thing. And the way the grading system in education works has long bothered him. That became clear a few years ago, when a particularly bright ...

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 ...

The University of Hawaii is giving its students the option of choosing credit or no credit rather than letter grades for the spring semester, according to an email sent to students. “UH recognizes ...

Joshua R. Eyler is no stranger to alternative forms of grading, which he has been utilizing in his own writing classes for over a decade. But it wasn’t until he was composing his previous book, How ...

Whether we like them or not, grades are an important part of being a student. Grades can determine success rates, accessibility to schools and resources, and overall satisfaction. But how grades are ...