EdutopiaOpinion

Establishing Consistent Standards-Based Grading Throughout Your School

Teachers and school leaders can work together to ensure that report cards function as trustworthy indicators of what students ...
KY3

School district’s new grading system gives students a low grade of 40% instead of a zero

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 ...
Purdue University

Creating Student-Centered Grading Structures

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 ...
The Hoya

GU Introduces New Grading System as Students Raise Fairness Concerns

Georgetown University announced additional reforms to its grading policy for the spring semester April 2 following weeks of student lobbying for more lenient academic standards amid the COVID-19 ...
The 74Opinion

A, B, C or D – Grades Might Not Say all That Much About What Students Are Actually Learning

For more than 80 years, students at least in seventh grade through college in the U.S. have generally earned one grade for a ...