In his Sept. 14 piece, “The Danger With Giving Students Feedback,” Alfie Kohn cites a 2020 Duke study which found that the traditional practice of grading can damage student motivation and performance ...

NASHUA – Acing a test won’t just get Nashua students an “A+” under a new grading system adopted by the Board of Education Monday night. It will also get them a 100, a 4, and a recap of their course ...

NASHUA — Students will soon be receiving new report cards with slews of scores that reflect their knowledge and abilities in each course. The school district is piloting the new competency-based ...

Schools that have or are planning to adopt competency-based learning have access to a new report that offers guidance in how to assess student progress. In 42 pages "Progress and Proficiency: ...

Editor's note: This is the fourth in a series on Spaulding High's new competency grading system. ROCHESTER— The new competency-based grading system being implemented at Spaulding High School this fall ...

The Talbot County Board of Education received an update on Wednesday on the district’s ongoing grading policy review, a months-long effort involving teachers, ...

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 ...

NASHUA — After rolling out the next generation of report cards at a pair of public workshops with a panel of teachers, a PowerPoint presentation and plenty of multi-colored handouts, school ...

You know that old interview question: What would change in education if you had a magic wand? For Scott Looney, there’d be no hesitating: He would have every school switch from traditional grading to ...

In the coming year, thousands of high school students will be completing college applications. Those schools will be looking for great ACT scores, community service hours and extracurricular ...