For decades, school districts have sorted students into neat grade groupings: K–5, 6–8, 9–12. But those lines have blurred. Some districts are reviving stand-alone middle schools. Others are phasing ...

When a public school system in the San Francisco Bay Area explored replacing traditional grading practices with a form of “standards-based grading system” meant to eliminate bias, it sparked ...

Several years ago, during a one-on-one conversation with an art teacher at the middle school where I was principal, I came to an unsettling realization. We were wrestling with the fact that our ...

Hundreds of thousands of teenagers across England, Wales and Northern Ireland have received their GCSE results today (August 21). But long gone are the days of grades A to U, and for the past few ...

Grace Sidi is lifted shoulder high by pupils of Bandacho primary school in Magarini Sub County, Kilifi County. Sidi scored an A plain of 83 points in the recently released Kenya Certificate of ...