Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The move towards personalized, competency-based learning in Arizona’s Santa Cruz Valley Unified School District (SCVUSD) began ...

St. Joseph Parish School, 32946 Electric Blvd. in Avon Lake, which is part of the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, is making strides in educational innovation by embracing standards-based grading. St.

Join this webinar to learn from four school leaders who have guided their communities through a shift in grading practices and are successfully implementing standards-based grading. During this panel ...

Students chat during book club at Leadership Academy at John T. White Elementary School in Fort Worth in this 2022 file photo. The district plans to drop letter grades at elementary schools in favors ...

What’s familiar often seems to be the best: your mother’s chicken soup or your old, comfy evening clothes. In some parts of modern society, we’re finding what is familiar may not be best. In education ...

Grading in most classrooms remains tied to rubrics devised by individual teachers and rooted in century-old practices. Recently, amid a broader national trend, grading systems in schools have come ...

Apr. 13—Alette HahnHansen repeats a short phrase to keep herself motivated: "Oscar, doctor, president." The 17-year-old, a junior at Santa Fe High School, hopes to win an Oscar, earn a doctorate and ...

Standards-based grading (SBG)—or competency-based grading—measures student progress relative to specific learning standards. This system of evaluation isolates the learning of content and mastery of ...

In my last column I explained how our standards-based grading impacts — or rather, doesn’t — the college admissions process. In an effort to continue the conversation, this week’s School Views is ...

The Nampa School Board discussed a variety of topics at its regular meeting Thursday evening, including the contract for the interim deputy superintendent, standards-based grading, and the disposal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Letter grades have long been part of the fabric of the American educational system. iStock/Getty Images Plus For more than 80 ...