I prided myself on being the fairest grader in my school. Looking back, I cringe at the grading practices I once used. It’s not that I took grading lightly. Quite the opposite: I was deeply invested.

A recent survey of nearly 1,000 K-12 teachers found that about half had seen “equitable” grading policies used in their school or district and most reported the approach hurt academic engagement.

(TNS) — When history teacher Jeff Kleiner assigns a quiz, test or lesson, he plots a roadmap to success on the board. Colors and numbers connect detailed criteria to each available score, showing ...

Teachers and school leaders can work together to ensure that report cards function as trustworthy indicators of what students know and can do.

Students and parents have begun suing school districts over grading policies and practices they say are unfair. As a scholar of education who studies grading practices, I’ve seen how important grades ...

Top school districts in the East Bay are adopting some of the core principles of this grading approach while scrubbing any mention of the word that has made the movement politically radioactive.

BEREA, Ohio -- Grading guidelines in the Berea City School District will change beginning with the 2024-25 school year to provide a more equitable way of evaluating student achievement. Director of ...

Joe: Rick, you’ve written recently about the harms of grade inflation and how a primary cause is educators who, influenced by “equitable grading,” compromise rigor and award students higher grades ...

Fifth grade teacher Melinda Goodwin, left, helps students Camila Caracheo, Elianna Betancourt and Ignacio Valencia with multiplying decimals during class at Don Pedro Elementary School in Ceres, Calif ...

Course grades: a familiar source of anxiety for some, a source of pride for others, and a near-universal signal of student success in U.S. schools. Few features of our education system are more ...

Rick: Joe, we had a fascinating conversation a few weeks ago about “equitable grading.” As I noted, I’m pretty skeptical, given that I’ve encountered it as an attack on rigor and traditional academic ...