During the most recent school year, KCPS launched a different grading system where the minimum grade on any given assignment is 40% — even if the student didn’t do a single bit of it. It has drawn a ...

Top school districts in the East Bay are adopting some of the core principles of this grading approach while scrubbing any mention of the word that has made the movement politically radioactive.

My son Andrew is currently in the midst of the college application process. My daughter Megan is a junior in college. And in my job as a college professor, I constantly find myself in conversations ...

In an attempt at easing the high school-to-college transition, some U.S. universities have begun implementing unorthodox student assessment methods, reigniting a debate over whether the traditional ...

Michigan is a step closer to removing A-F letter grading for schools after House lawmakers voted to drop the system designed to rate the academic performance of the state’s K-12 public institutions.

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 ...