The Northern Cass school district in North Dakota last spring graduated its first class of seniors who went through most of high school without receiving letter grades. Instead, their report cards ...

The Warrensville Heights City School District is the latest local school district to transition from letter grades to a standards-based grading system intended to wring personality issues and ...

School districts across the state, including Portland, Bend-La Pine, Beaverton and Hillsboro, are phasing out the traditional A through F grading system in favor of standards-based grading, which ...

Standards based grading, or SBG, is a grading system that measures students’ progress towards mastery of specific learning goals. These goals or standards are developed at the state level. Our ...

St. Joseph Parish School, 32946 Electric Blvd. in Avon Lake, which is part of the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, is making strides in educational innovation by embracing standards-based grading. St.

A new type of grading that challenges the traditional 100-point scale is spreading across Washington state high schools, but teachers are divided on whether it’s a good idea. The new approach, called ...

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 ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Johnston County restored A-F letter grades for grades 3–5 after parent complaints. K–2 stayed standards-based but switched to Level 1 ...

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 ...

The Nampa school board’s decision last week to eliminate standards-based grading in secondary schools, against the administration’s recommendation, has spurred some confusion as teachers begin to ...