Georgetown University announced additional reforms to its grading policy for the spring semester April 2 following weeks of student lobbying for more lenient academic standards amid the COVID-19 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Why are Indiana lawmakers trying to dismantle pass-fail grading systems? As the largest medical school in the U.S., Indiana ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two school days. That’s all it took. In 2024, I chaperoned field trips two days in a row, for two different grade levels, and came back to roughly 450 ungraded assignments. I knew what to do, I’ve ...

When a public school system in the San Francisco Bay Area explored replacing traditional grading practices with a form of “standards-based grading system” meant to eliminate bias, it sparked ...

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 ...

Most educators think that A through F or numeric grades aren’t a “very effective” way to reflect what students know and can do. So, what is the benefit of those systems? Why are these systems still in ...

A proposed grading reform at Harvard University has sparked a campus-wide discussion, bringing attention to how academic evaluation systems intersect with broader questions of fairness and access. The ...

We have so many theories of motivation—self-efficacy, goal setting, goal orientation, expectancy-value of goal achievement and most recently self-determination—backed by many thousands of research ...