The move towards personalized, competency-based learning in Arizona’s Santa Cruz Valley Unified School District (SCVUSD) began with a very basic question — “Are we doing what is best for our kids?” ...

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 ...

This past school year, standards-based grading and learning was fully implemented at Battle Mountain and Eagle Valley high schools. Over the past several years, Eagle County School District has ...

As K-12 grading practices evolve, it’s critical for school leaders and educators to routinely review grading policies and reflect on the effectiveness of practices to ensure adjustments are made that ...

For generations, school-aged children (and their parents) have measured academic progress the same way, with a single letter grade of A, B, C, D or F. It was a simple ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Big changes are coming for sixth, seventh and eighth graders at Portland Public Schools this fall. Students will no longer receive letter grades when they return to school in ...

The new grading scale assesses students based on specific learning goals and largely removes homework from the grading equation.

During his first year as a math and science teacher at Solon High School, one of Shawn Cornally's colleagues asked him two questions. “What do quizzes mean to your students? What do quizzes mean to ...

One year after Santa Fe Public Schools implemented a standards-based grading policy, many students are still adjusting to being measured by a 1-4 scale focused on skills mastery instead of the ...

Starting this fall, parents of elementary school students in the Manteca Unified School District will no longer see letter grades on their students' report cards. Instead, teachers are going to send ...

The Nampa school board voted to get rid of standards-based grading for secondary schools in the district. Sarah A. Miller smiller@idahostatesman.com The Nampa school board’s decision last week to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is a photo of a teacher grading papers. Before Thomas Guskey became a leading academic expert on grading and assessments, he ...