Not to toot my own horn, but 100 years ago, I was pretty much a straight-A student in school (yep, total nerd). But whether your report cards and transcripts contained mainly A’s, B’s, C’s or even the ...

Several years ago, during a one-on-one conversation with an art teacher at the middle school where I was principal, I came to an unsettling realization. We were wrestling with the fact that our ...

Robert Talbert is a math professor, so numbers are his thing. And the way the grading system in education works has long bothered him. That became clear a few years ago, when a particularly bright ...

A new grading system at Windermere High School in Orange County has some students and parents up in arms over what they call an overemphasis on testing at the expense of other coursework. Under the ...

Some internet eyebrows shot up this week over headlines like “San Diego school districts overhauls grading system to combat racism.” It turns out that what San Diego is doing is following in the ...