Once nearly everyone receives high marks, the institution has not made everyone excellent. It has made excellence harder to ...

If I were the Fairfax County schools superintendent, wondering what to do about a growing parent revolt against the county's tough grading system, I would surrender ...

Harvard faculty voted to impose a 20 percent grade cap in an attempt to curb surging grade inflation at the university, the Harvard Crimson reported Wednesday. After a week of voting, 69.5 percent of ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina students got mostly good news as the Education Department released several measures of student performance Thursday. Education officials said 84 percent of the ...

In August 2024, a post on the social media site X displayed a graphic from the daytime talk show "Dr. Phil." The graphic, summarizing a "Facebook Post by CA Parent," shows a lenient "public school ...

The Northern Cass school district in North Dakota last spring graduated its first class of seniors who went through most of high school without receiving letter grades. Instead, their report cards ...

Grades are a well-established part of the K-12 education system that, in most school districts, play a decisive role in students’ academic standing. But what goes into the single letter or number that ...

A teacher I know was working at a D.C. public high school when the district installed a rule during the pandemic that no grade on any assignment could be lower than 50 percent. Many schools around the ...