Grades are a standard part of the American educational system that most students and teachers take for granted. But what if students didn’t have just one shot at acing a midterm, or even could talk ...

During the most recent school year, KCPS launched a different grading system where the minimum grade on any given assignment is 40% — even if the student didn’t do a single bit of it. It has drawn a ...

My son Andrew is currently in the midst of the college application process. My daughter Megan is a junior in college. And in my job as a college professor, I constantly find myself in conversations ...

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 ...

Ensuring grades are fair and meaningful is not as easy as A, B, C (or D or F). As they address the lingering affects of the COVID-19 pandemic, districts are struggling to square fairness and ...

Joshua R. Eyler is no stranger to alternative forms of grading, which he has been utilizing in his own writing classes for over a decade. But it wasn’t until he was composing his previous book, How ...