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 ...
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 ...
Grading in most classrooms remains tied to rubrics devised by individual teachers and rooted in century-old practices. Recently, amid a broader national trend, grading systems in schools have come ...
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. — Ten students took a day off of summer break to speak out against a new policy that aims to fight grade inflation in Montgomery County Public Schools at a school board meeting ...
As a local educator, I see the same pattern every year: students with impressive GPAs walk into my classroom confident, capable and ready to work, at least on paper. But when it comes time to read ...
Educators spend countless hours thinking about grades, talking about them, and doing the work involved in giving them. Many posts on this topic have appeared here over the years, and I’m sure more ...