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 ...

With a years-long shift to skills-based instruction and grading, this district found an unexpected outcome—an increase in AP ...

When Laura Link works with districts to review their grading policies, she starts by asking a simple question: What are grades for? Are grades meant to motivate students? To help teachers determine ...

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 ...

Course grades: a familiar source of anxiety for some, a source of pride for others, and a near-universal signal of student success in U.S. schools. Few features of our education system are more ...

Springfield Public Schools overhauled elementary report cards — eliminating letter grades — and parents are getting their first look. At parent-teacher conferences, which run through Nov. 4, teachers ...

Tennessee gives every public school a letter grade each year. The latest list reflects how schools did in the 2024-25 school year. The number of Tennessee public schools that earned an A letter grade ...