Nine out of 10 faculty who switched to a specifications grading system reported it resulted in higher-quality student work.

I knew what to do, I’ve done it before, mark them credit or no credit and move on. Students get something out of that. They ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV/Gray News) - A school district in Missouri adopted a new grading system that prevents students from receiving a zero even if they didn’t do the assignment. The Kansas City ...

Educators spend countless hours thinking about grades, talking about them, and doing the work involved in giving them. Many posts on this topic have appeared here over the years, and I’m sure more ...

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 ...

Principal Jenenne Coulon was observing a teacher’s lesson last month when text messages came pouring in. School grades had been released. For Louisiana educators, the annual school ratings can inspire ...

When grading policies vary significantly from one university to another, the principle of equal opportunity is undermined.

An increasing number of students and parents are considering what is known as a "school record reset (reset)," where students drop out after their first year of high school due to unsatisfactory ...

Prasad is a fourth-year medical student and public policy graduate student in Austin, Texas. A “quiet but consequential erosion of standards” is how a Republican Texas state senator described ...