Teachers and school leaders can work together to ensure that report cards function as trustworthy indicators of what students ...

For more than 80 years, students at least in seventh grade through college in the U.S. have generally earned one grade for a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sixth-grade students work on a writing exercise at Wilson Elementary School in Modesto on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016. Andy Alfaro [email protected] Modesto City Schools is expanding its equitable ...

The Prince William County Public School system has convened a task force to review its grading policy, making it the latest Virginia school system to evaluate how student work is graded.

Not turning in an assignment will have greater consequences for students in Fairfax County, Virginia, this school year. In an update to its grading policies, Fairfax County Public Schools said ...

It’s the end of the semester, which means that 70 George Mason University students are hoping I will give them an A in their required advanced composition class. Many are mystified by how college ...

Turn and talk with sentence stems: Give sentence starters at multiple levels: “Multiplication is…” for some students, and ...

Thanks to your hard work in and out of the classroom, CU Boulder celebrated record-high undergraduate retention and graduation rates in 2023. Grade for Student Success emerged from faculty ...