Apr. 13—Alette HahnHansen repeats a short phrase to keep herself motivated: "Oscar, doctor, president." The 17-year-old, a junior at Santa Fe High School, hopes to win an Oscar, earn a doctorate and ...

Teachers and school leaders can work together to ensure that report cards function as trustworthy indicators of what students know and can do.

The Warrensville Heights City School District is the latest local school district to transition from letter grades to a standards-based grading system intended to wring personality issues and ...

Starting this fall, parents of elementary school students in the Manteca Unified School District will no longer see letter grades on their students' report cards. Instead, teachers are going to send ...

Join this webinar to learn from four school leaders who have guided their communities through a shift in grading practices and are successfully implementing standards-based grading. During this panel ...

January 8, 2026 - It's time for John Fensterwald's annual predictions for what's in store for education in 2026. Grading in most classrooms remains tied to rubrics devised by individual teachers and ...

Standards-based grading (SBG)—or competency-based grading—measures student progress relative to specific learning standards. This system of evaluation isolates the learning of content and mastery of ...

According to the column by Phil Qualman in the Oct. 13 print edition of the Vail Daily, the Eagle County School District is moving toward a “standards-based grading model” to be used at all Eagle ...

WARRENSVILLE HEIGHTS, Ohio – For decades, K-12 students have gotten report cards, loaded with letter grades, indicating their performance in each subject. But times are changing. A’s B’s and C’s (and ...

In my last column I explained how our standards-based grading impacts — or rather, doesn’t — the college admissions process. In an effort to continue the conversation, this week’s School Views is ...