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, ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Users across the social media landscape left comments bemoaning the state of the American public-education system. Some users went further, implying that the scale was implemented statewide. But a few ...