Georgetown University announced additional reforms to its grading policy for the spring semester April 2 following weeks of student lobbying for more lenient academic standards amid the COVID-19 ...

With a years-long shift to skills-based instruction and grading, this district found an unexpected outcome—an increase in AP ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — One Missouri State University professor is revolutionizing the way students are graded. Dr. Chloe Bolyard, an Associate Professor of Elementary Education, has introduced a new ...

There is a new grading system in Illinois that is becoming mainstream. It is a system that uses numbers instead of letters to give students’ grades. The name of the system is Standards Based Grading ...

Michigan is a step closer to removing A-F letter grading for schools after House lawmakers voted to drop the system designed to rate the academic performance of the state’s K-12 public institutions.

“Adopting this new grading system has the potential to improve our academic culture by reducing competition between and among students, by focusing communication between students and faculty on ...

Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe has signed an executive order to simplify the grading scale used to measure school growth, ...

The new policy is partly motivated by the need to establish a clear threshold for graduation, to replace the statewide MCAS standard. Members of the teachers union expressed concern about the speed of ...

(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 ...

Teachers who typically stay after-hours to tutor studious teens have been closing their doors this month, after receiving a mandatory directive from the Yuba City Unified School District to submit ...

Over 30 years teaching at Brown, I have had the privilege of working with many talented students who have thrived through difficult academic challenges and gone on to wonderful careers in academia and ...