Harvard students pushed back forcefully against a new University report condemning grade inflation, arguing that it ...

More Harvard College students than ever are passing their classes with flying colors, but the College’s evaluation system is ...

Parents and students in a growing number of Washington area schools can track fluctuations in a grade-point average from the nearest computer in real time, a ritual that can become as addictive as ...

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 ...

Originally intended just for Lufkin High School, the online system was so popular with parents that within a few weeks it expanded to include Lufkin Middle School and all LISD elementary schools. Lynn ...

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 ...

During the 2011-12 school year, Roxanne Greitz Miller was a professor-in-residence at a California middle school that had just started using an online grade book app that allowed parents and students ...

This story was made free for all readers on Jan. 8, 2024. Casey Warning logged into his University of Wisconsin-Parkside student account last summer and noticed something odd. His transcript showed he ...

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 ...

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 ...

MILWAUKEE — After the University of Wisconsin-Parkside concluded that one of its tenured professors had "engaged in fraudulent grading" within a six-year time span, she quietly resigned at the end of ...