After Texas school districts sued over state report cards, lawmakers are studying other ways to assess campus and district ...

In Springfield, many schools are now using standards-based grading, a system focused on mastery of skills instead of points on homework and tests.

Graded report sticking out of backpack. JulNichols/Getty Images. In an attempt at easing the high school-to-college transition, some U.S. universities have begun implementing unorthodox student ...

Prasad is a fourth-year medical student and public policy graduate student in Austin, Texas. A “quiet but consequential erosion of standards” is how a Republican Texas state senator described ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV/Gray News) - A school district in Missouri adopted a new grading system that prevents students from receiving a zero even if they didn’t do the assignment. The Kansas City ...

Two years ago, Charlie Herzog asked: Should we continue to assign students grades in the traditional manner (percentages & letters), or should we move towards a system based on levels of mastery? I ...

(STACKER) – Formal education systems have been in place for thousands of years—from the earliest examples of China’s Xia dynasty schooling that began in 2070 B.C., to the robust, philosophically based ...

Attempts to address inequitable grading, while well-intentioned, can go awry if districts don't bring all stakeholders to the ...

The Dean of Undergraduate Education sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss Harvard-Yale relations, Sidechat, and Harvard’s ...