With a years-long shift to skills-based instruction and grading, this district found an unexpected outcome—an increase in AP ...

At the last Wagoner Board of Education meeting, the board approved the change to a skill-based grading system for Ellington Elementary first grade students. The skill-based grading system measures ...

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 ...

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

But a misunderstanding of standards-based grading’s true principles, a lack of proper training for educators and a rush to quickly adopt a complex new system often leads to messy implementation, ...

St. Joseph Parish School, 32946 Electric Blvd. in Avon Lake, which is part of the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, is making strides in educational innovation by embracing standards-based grading. St.

For about the past six years, Ignacio schools have been moving toward classes where students can learn at their own pace through each subject. The middle school is taking another step in that process ...

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 ...

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 ...

One year after Santa Fe Public Schools implemented a standards-based grading policy, many students are still adjusting to being measured by a 1-4 scale focused on skills mastery instead of the ...

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 ...