California has announced a new rubric for grading the state’s public schools. It’s meant to be more comprehensive, require greater accountability and provide metrics for things like college-readiness.

Graded report sticking out of backpack. JulNichols/Getty Images. In an attempt at easing the high school-to-college transition, some U.S. universities have begun implementing unorthodox student ...

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

Two years ago, Charlie Herzog asked: Should we continue to assign students grades in the traditional manner (percentages & letters), or should we move towards a system based on levels of mastery? I ...

Students at Ashland Middle School in Oregon don’t get A’s or B’s on their assignments, they aren’t graded on a 100-point scale, or given a traditional standards-based grade. But these students—and ...

We’ve tried to give the Rohnert Park-Cotati Unified School District the benefit of the doubt on its decision to ratchet down its grading rubric to help struggling students. But it’s hard. Editor’s ...

In an attempt at easing the high school-to-college transition, some U.S. universities have begun implementing unorthodox student assessment methods, reigniting a debate over whether the traditional ...