On Wednesday, the State Board of Education approved a new grading system for students that will gauge a student’s performance on assessment tests every year. The new guidelines will set scale scores ...

KALAMAZOO, MI -- Kalamazoo Public Schools new ‘Power School’ grading system has been a success so far, Superintendent Rita Raichoudhuri said. The new system was enacted in grades K-12 this year and ...

BLOOMINGTON, IN - Solution Tree, an educational publisher and professional development provider, has announced the release of Essential Assessment by Cassandra Erkens, Tom Schimmer and Nicole Dimich ...

In an attempt at easing the high school-to-college transition, some U.S. universities have begun implementing unorthodox student assessment methods, reigniting a debate over whether the traditional ...

In their new book, Off the Mark: How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning (but Don’t Have To) (Harvard University Press), Jack Schneider, an education professor at the University of ...