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 ...

Joe: Rick, you’ve written recently about the harms of grade inflation and how a primary cause is educators who, influenced by “equitable grading,” compromise rigor and award students higher grades ...

According to a recent study, grading is one of the least stressful activities early career teachers have to complete. Grading is time consuming, however, and more grading-related questions are popping ...

Joe: Rick, you’ve written recently about the harms of grade inflation and how a primary cause is educators who, influenced by “equitable grading,” compromise rigor and award students higher grades ...

Thank you for covering the issue of grading and developing a deeper understanding of this important debate going on in education right now. I am a high school teacher in the Fairfax County public ...

To S/U or not to S/U? That is the question. At least, until the end of this week. This year, the deadline for students to request satisfactory/unsatisfactory (S/U ...

Half of my professors use the 15% grading scale.<BR><BR>Or a bell curve. Only a scnat few use the 10% scale.<BR><BR>Elementary, middle, and high schools seem hung up on it though. I suppose maybe it ...