A new book by two education professors explores why assessment became so fraught and what we can do to restore its original purpose: helping students learn. In their new book, Off the Mark: How Grades ...

The State Board of Education approved the Florida Department of Education’s updated school grading scale during the July board meeting on Wednesday morning. According to the released statement ...

The performance assessment is passed if it receives a grade of 4.0 or higher. For further information, including the relationship of the ETH grading system to ECTS grades, see the document Download ...

The state of North Carolina is considering a grade change that would make a 39, not a 64, a failing grade. According to a bill proposed in the state assembly, the new grading scale would make it ...

The new grading scale will be adopted across the district at the start of the 2017-18 school year, following a field test last fall involving about 12,000 students across different schools, ...

Grade Range Hitting Power Running Fielding Throwing 80 80 .318+ 40+ 4.15 seconds 10-12 97 mph + 70 Plus Plus .298 30-35 4.25 seconds ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Some Democratic lawmakers want to stop a scheduled change to the grading scale for school performance evaluations in North Carolina. House Bill 145, which was filed Feb. 21 ...

Henry Clay High School Principal Paul Little said his school’s grading scale — an A is 92 percent instead of 90 percent — puts his students at a disadvantage and needs to be changed.

Officials estimate that about 12,000 students will be affected across all schools in the district. For example, the new grading scale will be tested out in fourth-grade math classes in ...

The Rapid City Area Schools Board of Education voted unanimously Tuesday to move to a 10-point grading scale beginning next school year.

Granite School District is changing its grading scale. A new way of measurement looks at how well a student understands core standards, not at the work they’ve done. It’s called proficiency ...

Why does MLB use the 20-80 scale. MLB uses 20 to 80 as its scale because, the way scouts figure, 99.7 percent of players are going to fall within the standard deviation of 30 points.