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

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X How many kids show up to school each day? Do they play well with others? Those are two new factors ...

The Michigan Department of Education is backing away from an effort to assign schools an A-F grade based on performance, choosing instead to use a "dashboard" containing multiple indicators to show ...

The Wayzata School District is planning to implement a standards-based 4-3-2-1 grading system at its three middle schools for the 2016-2017 academic year. The system, called Grading for Learning, ...

Most parents responding to a recent survey like the experimental changes made in some elementary school report cards this past year _ including a change in the traditional A, B, C's for younger ...

Knox County Schools will be freezing grades for high school students and averaging third-quarter grades with previous grades for students in kindergarten through 8th grade, the district announced on ...

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is rolling out a new grading system this year that will allow students who score poorly on tests to redo assignments for a higher score. At its heart, the new way of ...

Faced with two conflicting methods of grading schools, the Hillsborough County School Board said Tuesday it will develop its own comprehensive way of evaluating schools by the first of the year. Board ...

In the future, a principal in Idaho could celebrate if his school got a score of 99 from the state. But move the school to Arizona, and that score could push a principal to look for a new job. As more ...