Today’s guest post is written by Thomas Guskey, Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Kentucky. Educators have the odd habit of taking simple ideas and making them inexplicably ...

Meridian Public Schools Superintendent Sarah Glann is excited about some quiet work behind the scenes that aims to set the district on a good long-term path academically. "It’s not flashy. But it's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Big changes are coming for sixth, seventh and eighth graders at Portland Public Schools this fall.

Standards-based grading (SBG)—or competency-based grading—measures student progress relative to specific learning standards. This system of evaluation isolates the learning of content and mastery of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write on the human/political issues surrounding college admissions. The U.S. education system's decades-long focus on standards, ...

For almost the past four decades, academic standards have been a defining focus of efforts to improve student achievement. The movement for high academic standards—determinations of what students ...

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 ...

The Wisconsin Dells School District wants to better measure how well students are doing in relation to grade-level standards, instead of simply concluding this based on assignment/test scores and work ...

(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 ...

FOREST CITY | A spokesman for a group of Forest City parents who have concerns about grading for standards-based learning says the group wants to be heard. MASON CITY | A number of Iowa districts — ...