State officials have approved major changes to the system for evaluating annual performance of K-12 schools, a move that some district leaders warn will lead to lower rankings and fewer workforce ...

Standards-based grading continues to gain popularity as schools look to measure students’ mastery of grade-level standards, in addition to, or in place of, traditional grades. As school leaders ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV/Gray News) - A school district in Missouri adopted a new grading system that prevents students from receiving a zero even if they didn’t do the assignment. The Kansas City ...

WARRENSVILLE HEIGHTS, Ohio – For decades, K-12 students have gotten report cards, loaded with letter grades, indicating their performance in each subject. But times are changing. A’s B’s and C’s (and ...

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 ...

It took 26 educators, administrators, parents, school board members and other education-minded folks 150 hours of extensive study into the state’s system for grading schools — including interviewing ...

Tennessee has released letter grades for every public K-12 school in the state and Oak Ridge Schools received an A at six of the seven schools graded, making those schools among the highest rated ones ...