As school communities embrace distance learning, districts are now trying to figure out how to fairly grade students for the rest of the semester while their campuses are closed and they get ...

S usan D. Blum has been teaching college students for 30 years. For much of that time, she was a conventional grader. But finals week at the University of Notre Dame this past spring found Blum, a ...

Let me start with an unpopular but now well-worn recommendation: The routine use of grades in every corner of schooling needs to go. For over a century, American education has made grades its primary ...

Grades are a standard part of the American educational system that most students and teachers take for granted. But what if students didn’t have just one shot at acing a midterm, or even could talk ...

When Laura Link works with districts to review their grading policies, she starts by asking a simple question: What are grades for? Are grades meant to motivate students? To help teachers determine ...

I was a kid who thrived on the positive reinforcement of being an “A” student; to this day, I can count on my hands the number of “bad grades” I received during my K-12 education. There was the “D” on ...