Yahoo

Opinion: How Standards-Based Grading Is Empowering Students to Own Their Education

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The move towards personalized, competency-based learning in Arizona’s Santa Cruz Valley Unified School District (SCVUSD) began ...
Yahoo

Bumpy road to standards-based grading for Santa Fe Public Schools

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 13—Alette HahnHansen repeats a short phrase to keep herself motivated: "Oscar, doctor, president." The 17-year-old, a junior ...
Cleveland.com

Is standards-based grading, rather than letter grades, the way to go? Some local schools think so: Editorial Board Roundtable

The Warrensville Heights City School District is the latest local school district to transition from letter grades to a standards-based grading system intended to wring personality issues and ...
WUWM

Some Wisconsin Schools Use Standards-Based Grading...What Is That?

Science teacher David Venne invites students to help him with a class demonstration at Racine Case High School. Several Wisconsin school districts are trying a new method of evaluating what students ...
The Beaumont Enterprise

Standards-based grading offers a different model of assessing student learning in the classroom

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jerrid Kruse, Drake University (THE CONVERSATION) Some school districts, including ...
TwinCities.com

Minnesota schools give standards-based grading system a closer look

Some Minnesota educators are on a mission to take the guesswork out of grades. A growing number of school districts in the state and across the nation are looking at overhauling how they size up ...
Forbes

San Diego Schools Are Changing Their Grading System. Is It A Good Idea?

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 ...
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Making the switch to standards-based grading

More schools are moving away from traditional points-based systems toward standards-based grading, which measures what students actually learn. This approach aims to increase transparency, help ...
Palo Alto Weekly

No more A’s and F’s? Teachers experiment with ‘standards based’ grading

In Laurie Pennington’s science classes at Gunn High School, standards-based grading has tested students’ and parents’ firm attachment to traditional grades. This is the fourth year she’s used the form ...
MLive

Move to standards-based grading coming to Ypsilanti Community Schools

YPSILANTI, MI - Ypsilanti Community Schools is moving toward a standards-based grading model at its high school that focuses on students’ progress toward mastering specific concepts without ...
Chicago Tribune

Standards-based grading gets an ‘F’ from old-school parents

Your kid comes home from school with an A in math and reading, a B in science and a D in history. Pretty easy to understand, right? Good marks in math, reading and science; got to buckle down and do ...