With college admission letters rolling in, seniors are losing sleep, pulling their hair out and crying in their own stress tears. What are they stressing about? ACT scores. SAT scores. Cumulative ...

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — This year, Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp. high school students will no longer compete for the top spot in their class, but a switch to weighted grades may give students an ...

These are grades written either as a letter or ascribed a numerical value, which emphasis is placed upon during GPA calculation. Weighted grades have usually been obtained at higher levels of ...

Fargo high schools will move to a weighted grade system this fall. As a result, students like Ryan Reza predict there will be a big jump in the number of students taking advanced classes. "The kids ...

UPDATE: The school board decided to postpone its vote on the weighted GPA proposals to May rather than on April 18 because of a ” more pressing priority,” the 2017-18 budget, Superintendent Max McGee ...

Among the many differences, large and small, between Palo Alto and Gunn high schools is a discrepancy between how school counselors report students’ grade point averages (GPAs) to colleges and ...

At its meeting on Jan 11, the Vernon Board of Education voted to change the way courses at Rockville High School are weighted, which affects students’ class rank and subsequently, most colleges’ ...

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — When stress decreases, Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp. Superintendent David Smith said learning increases. The education model has shifted, Smith said. EVSC schools no longer ...

Greenwich High School may stop giving greater weight to grades earned by students taking more rigorous classes, under possible rule changes being considered by staff. Headmaster Chris Winters wants to ...

LISBON — The school board is scrapping the practice of weighted grades, starting with the 2021 graduating class, which means the valedictorian or valedictorians that year cannot have a GPA greater ...