Several colleges around the country are adapting a new grading system to their curriculum for incoming freshman: there is none! That’s right, the universities decided to make the transition into upper ...

During Gigi Segal’s first year at the California Polytechnic State University, she received several failing grades in her botany class, and to hear her tell it, she had Montgomery County Public ...

Faculty and administrators at Western Oregon University are aiming to increase student retention rates and foster academic equity by changing the university’s grading system. The small regional ...

When Carolynn van Arsdale, a senior at the University of Vermont, was forced to leave her campus amid coronavirus concerns last month, it caused a lot of complications. " I was forced to move out of ...

Joy Malak floundered through her freshman year in college. "I had to learn how to balance my finances. I had to learn how to balance work and school and the relationship I'm in." The hardest part ...

Several years ago, during a one-on-one conversation with an art teacher at the middle school where I was principal, I came to an unsettling realization. We were wrestling with the fact that our ...

Students should not be reduced to a mere letter or number because it confines intelligence to the constraints of traditional grading practices. In most U.S.-based education systems, grades have become ...

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 Northern Cass school district in North Dakota last spring graduated its first class of seniors who went through most of high school without receiving letter grades. Instead, their report cards ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. These changes align with the recommendations put forth by the Presidential Working Party ...