Teachers and school leaders can work together to ensure that report cards function as trustworthy indicators of what students ...

(TNS) — When history teacher Jeff Kleiner assigns a quiz, test or lesson, he plots a roadmap to success on the board. Colors and numbers connect detailed criteria to each available score, showing ...

Imagine the following scenario: Valerie gets her report card back on a day when palpable excitement and fear surge through the school as students bustle back to homeroom in the afternoon. She is ...

In Laurie Pennington’s science classes at Gunn High School, standards-based grading has tested students’ and parents’ firm attachment to traditional grades. This is the fourth year she’s used the form ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WVEC) -- Virginia Beach City Public Schools administration is looking at potentially changing its grading guidelines for middle and high schools to create consistency across all ...

The U.S. Supreme Court asked the Bush administration last week for its views about a federal appeals court ruling that struck down the practice of having students grade each other’s schoolwork. The ...

The San Diego Unified School District is eliminating non-academic factors such as student behavior from academic grades following the school board’s unanimous vote Oct. 13 to overhaul the district’s ...