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 ...
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 ...
Students at Harvard Push Back Against New Grading Policy They Describe as ‘Racist’ ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Principal Jenenne Coulon was observing a teacher’s lesson last month when text messages came pouring in. School grades had been released. For Louisiana educators, the annual school ratings can inspire ...