Standards-based grading provides a more transparent assessment of the extent the intended learning is happening in the ...

ELKINS — As new instructional standards find their way into classrooms, the day will come for the Elkins School District to shift from the standard A, B, C, D or F ...

When it comes to grading, most students have grown up with letter-based report cards, which place heavy emphasis on not only submitted work and test performance, but also participation and work ethic.

Parents at three elementary schools in the Fort Worth Independent School District got their first look at a new grading system earlier this month — one that doesn’t use the letter grades parents and ...

This post originally appeared on the Otus blog and is republished here with permission. Grading reform is messy, but it’s worth it. That was the central message from Jessica Espinoza and Alice ...

The standard student report card -- with traditional grades of A, B and C -- may soon be a thing of the past in Buffalo. In its place, a school district committee proposes a five-page "standards-based ...

It's too early for even a pass-fail grade, but a report card reform idea by a Buffalo School District committee deserves serious consideration. The committee wants to change grading to a five-page ...

The Beaverton School District will host an informational meeting on the revised elementary report card on Monday, November 4, 2013 from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. at the Beaverton School District Administration ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fort Worth ISD officials are piloting a standards-based grading model at three elementary schools. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images ...