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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Grades are a standard part of the American educational system that most students and teachers take for granted.

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 ...

CSUN’s administration has endorsed student flexibility in its decision to switch to alternative grading standards for the spring 2020 semester. The Faculty Senate and Associated Students presidential ...

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 ...

As colleges shift to remote studies during the COVID-19 outbreak, students across the state are urging administrators to forgo standard letter grades in light of the upheaval caused by the pandemic.

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 ...