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 ...

This past school year, standards-based grading and learning was fully implemented at Battle Mountain and Eagle Valley high schools. Over the past several years, Eagle County School District has ...

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 ...

Last year, we began our work to shift toward a standards-based grading model that will ultimately be used at all Eagle County School District schools. This year, a number of our schools are piloting ...

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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The movement toward standards-based learning has been in motion for over 30 years, yet there is ...

As K-12 grading practices evolve, it’s critical for school leaders and educators to routinely review grading policies and reflect on the effectiveness of practices to ensure adjustments are made that ...

Eagle County Schools has put in a lot of work to explain just what "standards-based grading" is as they move over to it instead of your regular A, B, C, D, F grading ...

Ignacio Middle School is nearing the end of its first semester of standards-based grading, a different way of reporting how students are learning. At IMS, it also governs weekly student eligibility ...

Standards based grading, or SBG, is a grading system that measures students’ progress towards mastery of specific learning goals. These goals or standards are developed at the state level. Our ...

The Nampa school board’s decision last week to eliminate standards-based grading in secondary schools, against the administration’s recommendation, has spurred some confusion as teachers begin to ...