The rollout of the Common Core State Standards has been bumpy, to say the least. Alaska, Nebraska, Texas, and Virginia rejected the common core from the outset. Oklahoma and Indiana have withdrawn ...

Students work on a literacy assignment at a Texas elementary school. Standards based on the science of reading have been shown to improve achievement. Credit: Jackie Mader for The Hechinger Report The ...

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 ...

• Madison School District is changing how students learn throughout the year, maintaining the grading system Madison used in middle school • East High School has already switched to the new system, ...

Apr. 13—Alette HahnHansen repeats a short phrase to keep herself motivated: "Oscar, doctor, president." The 17-year-old, a junior at Santa Fe High School, hopes to win an Oscar, earn a doctorate and ...

Educators and policymakers have debated in recent years how best to improve academic performance in the middle grades. In the absence of outcomes-based research about what works, school districts have ...

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 ...

For generations, school-aged children (and their parents) have measured academic progress the same way, with a single letter grade of A, B, C, D or F. It was a simple ...

A video to increase public awareness on standards based education has been released. A spokeswoman from the Ministry of Education said the video was part of the Ministry and Department of Education’s ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Alette HahnHansen repeats a short phrase to keep herself motivated: “Oscar, doctor, president.” The 17-year-old, ...