Assignments and the associated grades represent one of the most powerful tools in our teaching repertoire. It takes great care and precision to design assessments, and how we measure and translate ...

areas, giving different weight – or importance – to certain areas. Class size, technology and programs offered combine for the largest part of the final score, and the more standardized tests a school ...

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 ...

A public school system in Dublin, California ran a pilot project in standards-based grading, until the school board suspended it after pushback from parents. When a public school system in the San ...

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 ...