On Wednesday, the State Board of Education approved a new grading system for students that will gauge a student’s performance on assessment tests every year. The new guidelines will set scale scores ...

Graded report sticking out of backpack. JulNichols/Getty Images. In an attempt at easing the high school-to-college transition, some U.S. universities have begun implementing unorthodox student ...

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 ...

In the spring of 2020, I served as a teaching assistant for a lower-division history course at the University of California, Los Angeles. The campus shut down just before spring break, and our class ...

In their new book, Off the Mark: How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning (but Don’t Have To) (Harvard University Press), Jack Schneider, an education professor at the University of ...

In an attempt at easing the high school-to-college transition, some U.S. universities have begun implementing unorthodox student assessment methods, reigniting a debate over whether the traditional ...