During the most recent school year, KCPS launched a different grading system where the minimum grade on any given assignment is 40% — even if the student didn’t do a single bit of it. It has drawn a ...

After the fall 2025 final exam in Chemistry 430: Introduction to Biological Chemistry, students discovered that their instructor readjusted grade cutoffs, significantly lowering many students' marks ...

My son Andrew is currently in the midst of the college application process. My daughter Megan is a junior in college. And in my job as a college professor, I constantly find myself in conversations ...

Several years ago, during a one-on-one conversation with an art teacher at the middle school where I was principal, I came to an unsettling realization. We were wrestling with the fact that our ...

Ensuring grades are fair and meaningful is not as easy as A, B, C (or D or F). As they address the lingering affects of the COVID-19 pandemic, districts are struggling to square fairness and ...

Assignments and the associated grades represent one of the most powerful tools in our teaching repertoire. It takes great care and precision to design assessments, and how we measure and translate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Letter grades have long been part of the fabric of the American educational system. iStock/Getty Images Plus For more than 80 ...