GREENVILLE, N.C. (Stacker.com) – Formal education systems have been in place for thousands of years—from the earliest examples of China’s Xia dynasty schooling that began in 2070 B.C., to the robust, ...

(STACKER) – Formal education systems have been in place for thousands of years—from the earliest examples of China’s Xia dynasty schooling that began in 2070 B.C., to the robust, philosophically based ...

Today’s guest blog is written by Thomas R. Guskey, senior research scholar at the University of Louisville. It’s time that educators recognize a basic truth about reforming the way we grade and report ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Grading papers is ...

In an attempt at easing the high school-to-college transition, some U.S. universities have begun implementing unorthodox student assessment methods, reigniting a debate over whether the traditional ...

The overall A-F letter grades in “Quality Counts 2019” are based on the average of scores on a traditional 100-point scale for three custom indices developed by the Education Week Research Center: ...

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 ...

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 ...

School is in full swing, so I thought I'd look at a topic that seems unresolved from last year's School Board agenda. Should the Portsmouth school district continue to grade students on the 7-point ...

The S.C. Department of Education is considering adopting a new grading system for public schools, replacing the current seven-point grading scale with a 10-point scale. The policy shift will help ...

On April 4, 2024, posts began appearing online showing a graphic from an episode of the daytime talk show "Dr. Phil" that showed a "public school grading scale" far more lenient than what many ...

A new scale for grading ocular adverse events in oncology trials addresses ambiguities in CTCAE version 5 and includes dose modification recommendations. The scale, implemented in the I-SPY 2 trial, ...