Feb. 15—ROCHESTER — A Rochester Public School graduate removed from their high school years by three or more years probably wouldn't recognize the grading system used to evaluate today's students.

Las Vegas high-school English teacher Laura Jeanne Penrod initially thought the grading changes at her school district made sense. Under the overhaul, students are given more chances to prove they ...

School officials in Arlington, Virginia, are planning to table proposed changes to the school system’s homework policy to give staff more time to evaluate the impact of some of the recommendations.

The value of homework is suddenly under the microscope, and leaders of the Lafayette Parish school district have decided it should no longer be graded. School districts around the state also are ...

BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md. (WJZ)—A new grading policy is stirring up controversy in Baltimore County after educators decide that students will be graded only on what they learn, not how they behave or if ...

ROCHESTER — A Rochester Public Schools graduate removed from their high school years by three or more years probably wouldn’t recognize the grading system used to evaluate today’s students. It’s so ...

Students in Portland, Oregon may soon be able to get away with cheating and not doing assignments, if Portland Public Schools implements new “equitable grading practices.” If adopted, the new ...

I was totally surprised by the article indicating that some school systems will be grading homework and/or packets being sent home to students as a result of schools being closed. Seriously? There is ...

Along the bumpy return to normalcy in our pandemic-battered schools, I see an interesting movement to ease grading and homework requirements. Many educators have been promoting such changes for years, ...

A new method of grading in use by some teachers in the Ankeny school district is ruffling the feathers of some high school parents. Called standards-based grading, it allows for the retaking of tests ...