Two years ago, Charlie Herzog asked: Should we continue to assign students grades in the traditional manner (percentages & letters), or should we move towards a system based on levels of mastery? I ...

Prasad is a fourth-year medical student and public policy graduate student in Austin, Texas. A “quiet but consequential erosion of standards” is how a Republican Texas state senator described ...

Nine out of 10 faculty who switched to a specifications grading system reported it resulted in higher-quality student work.

Ted Forringer is Assistant Department Head of Physics. The Challenges with the Standard Grading System: As faculty, we are all familiar with what I would call the "standard grading system," in which ...

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 ...

It used to be that teachers filled out paper report cards and periodically sent them home with students for parents to look at and sign. Those days in many places are largely gone, replaced with ...

This staff editorial solely represents the majority view of The Crimson Editorial Board. Although the fifth Monday of the semester — the last day for students to switch a course to pass-fail — has ...

Dating back to 2,500 years ago in Ancient Greece, grades were never once used. Yet, it still spawned the greatest thinkers and writers of all time. Instead of applying grades, they used formative ...

State officials have approved major changes to the system for evaluating annual performance of K-12 schools, a move that some district leaders warn will lead to lower rankings and fewer workforce ...

A state audit found some schools with an A rating have less than 10% of students testing proficient in core subjects, ...