The number of elementary school students who received a zero on their state standardized essay test questions this spring increased by about 20% from last year. Among all third- to eighth-graders, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When a public school system in the San Francisco Bay Area explored replacing traditional grading practices with a form of ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Several years ago, during a one-on-one conversation with an art teacher at the middle school where I was principal, I came to an unsettling realization. We were wrestling with the fact that our ...