In August 2024, a post on the social media site X displayed a graphic from the daytime talk show "Dr. Phil." The graphic, summarizing a "Facebook Post by CA Parent," shows a lenient "public school ...

The first empirical evidence of how A-level grading in the pandemic affected university applications corroborates concerns about disproportionate benefits for private schools. Disadvantaged students ...

Robert Talbert is a math professor, so numbers are his thing. And the way the grading system in education works has long bothered him. That became clear a few years ago, when a particularly bright ...

SACRAMENTO – Modern public-education history is littered with novel education theories that have failed so spectacularly that the terms are now used as pejoratives. For instance, when I was in ...

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 ...

Grades are a well-established part of the K-12 education system that, in most school districts, play a decisive role in students’ academic standing. But what goes into the single letter or number that ...

Adopters of alternative grading see it as offering something that traditional grading does not: a shift in student motivation away from chasing percentage points on quizzes and tests, and toward ...

Grading in most classrooms remains tied to rubrics devised by individual teachers and rooted in century-old practices. Recently, amid a broader national trend, grading systems in schools have come ...

Ensuring grades are fair and meaningful is not as easy as A, B, C (or D or F). As they address the lingering affects of the COVID-19 pandemic, districts are struggling to square fairness and ...

Harvard University is preparing to make one of the most closely watched changes to grading policy in American higher education, arguing that the meaning of an A grade has been diluted by years of ...

Grading is used to provide feedback and evaluate student work. Instructors communicate to students about their performance, where they need more help to achieve the course's goals and highlight ...

Users across the social media landscape left comments bemoaning the state of the American public-education system. Some users went further, implying that the scale was implemented statewide. But a few ...