Several years ago, during a one-on-one conversation with an art teacher at the middle school where I was principal, I came to an unsettling realization. We were wrestling with the fact that our ...
Garth Meyer Redondo Beach Unified School District boardmembers voted March 10 to set grading standards for its middle schools ...
The math department’s new grading policy is meant to make grading more equitable across different lectures of the same courses. But some students say it closely resembles a quota system – which the ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) - Across the country, school districts are moving away from the traditional A through F grade scale. In Springfield, many schools are now using standards-based grading, a ...
The new policy is partly motivated by the need to establish a clear threshold for graduation, to replace the statewide MCAS standard. Members of the teachers union expressed concern about the speed of ...
Grades are a standard part of the American educational system that most students and teachers take for granted. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. But what if students ...