Evidence indicates that parents seldom challenge the rigor of learning expectations set for that highest level of performance ...

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

An empty classroom at Henry M. Gunn High School in Palo Alto on April 3, 2020. Phoro by Magali Gauthier. “Evidence-based” grading, a grading system that focuses on a student’s growth rather than test ...

Throughout my years as a teacher, principal, and district administrator, grading was like the old joke about the weather: Everyone complained, no one did anything. Students, families, and faculty knew ...

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 ...