Today’s guest post is written by Thomas Guskey, Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Kentucky. Educators have the odd habit of taking simple ideas and making them inexplicably ...

Oh, how I long for the days when I felt actualized as an English and language arts teacher who based my grades on homework, classwork, tests, and projects. The numbers were simple, and a cumulative ...

Standards-based grading (SBG)—or competency-based grading—measures student progress relative to specific learning standards. This system of evaluation isolates the learning of content and mastery of ...

This post originally appeared on the Otus blog and is republished here with permission. Grading reform is messy, but it’s worth it. That was the central message from Jessica Espinoza and Alice ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Big changes are coming for sixth, seventh and eighth graders at Portland Public Schools this fall. Students will no longer receive letter grades when they return to school in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write on the human/political issues surrounding college admissions. LOUISVILLE, KY - APRIL 13: The Spotbot 3.0.0, a four-legged ...

Education in the United States operates within a complex system. It is difficult to focus on any particular component without considering how it is influenced by and, in turn, influences other parts ...

For generations, school-aged children (and their parents) have measured academic progress the same way, with a single letter grade of A, B, C, D or F. It was a simple ...

FOREST CITY | A spokesman for a group of Forest City parents who have concerns about grading for standards-based learning says the group wants to be heard. MASON CITY | A number of Iowa districts — ...