Some Harvard students have launched a petition urging the university to abandon plans to pursue grading reform, calling it "racist." "We center racism as a core concern, contending that although the ...

Some Harvard students have launched a petition urging the university to abandon plans to pursue grading reform, calling it "racist." "We center racism as a core concern, contending that although the ...

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Some school districts, including ones in Maine, New Mexico, Iowa and Oregon, are shifting to standards-based grading, where students are graded on the skills and concepts they learn instead of points ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. (CHALKBEAT INDIANA) — Indiana has approved a new system to assign A-F letter grades to schools ...

Indiana’s new way of grading K-12 schools got unanimous approval Wednesday from the State Board of Education following a nearly yearlong process that included public input. The attorney general’s ...

The grading system at the University of Michigan doesn’t make much sense. On the scale listed on the LSA website, each letter grade increase is worth a point on the grade point average scale; going ...

What gets measured gets managed. Encourage lawmakers to enact Gov. Mike Kehoe’s system to give grades to our state’s schools. Getty Images As a former middle and high school principal and the current ...

It’s time for Harvard students to say goodbye to their straight-A’s. On Friday, a committee of faculty advised the school to adopt a 20% cap on A’s to beat back grade inflation — a stark reduction ...