Fort Worth ISD parents get first glimpse of standards-based grading model

Fort Worth ISD is piloting a new standards-based grading system this year at three elementary schools: Christene C. Moss, Luella Merrett and Alice Carlson Applied Learning Center. Eventually, district ...
Forbes

San Diego Schools Are Changing Their Grading System. Is It A Good Idea?

Some internet eyebrows shot up this week over headlines like “San Diego school districts overhauls grading system to combat racism.” It turns out that what San Diego is doing is following in the ...
1011 Now

School district’s new grading system gives students a low grade of 40% instead of a zero

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV/Gray News) - A school district in Missouri adopted a new grading system that prevents students from receiving a zero even if they didn’t do the assignment. The Kansas City ...
STAT

Don’t let states interfere with medical school grading systems

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 ...
Education Week

Our Grading System Was Setting Students Up to Fail—Until This Change

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 ...