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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jerrid Kruse, Drake University (THE CONVERSATION) Some school districts, including ...

YPSILANTI, MI - Ypsilanti Community Schools is moving toward a standards-based grading model at its high school that focuses on students’ progress toward mastering specific concepts without ...

Unless states move quickly to fill the void between academic standards and their use in classrooms, current efforts to raise student achievement could fizzle. That was the message of a two-day ...

This chapter discusses the relationships between formative and summative assessments—both in the classroom and externally. In addition to teachers, site-and district-level administrators and decision ...

Given my complaining about the dearth of control group research in the spreading, and I think troublesome, standards-based grading movement, I must give special attention to a new study that reveals ...

Education in the United States operates within a complex system. It is difficult to focus on any particular component without considering how it is influenced by and, in turn, influences other parts ...

The Nature of Teaching Extension program includes formal standards-based curricula and informal activity-based curricula, all centered around getting youth outside. Topics included are Food Waste, ...

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