Yahoo

Opinion: How Standards-Based Grading Is Empowering Students to Own Their Education

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The move towards personalized, competency-based learning in Arizona’s Santa Cruz Valley Unified School District (SCVUSD) began ...
Cleveland.com

Is standards-based grading, rather than letter grades, the way to go? Some local schools think so: Editorial Board Roundtable

The Warrensville Heights City School District is the latest local school district to transition from letter grades to a standards-based grading system intended to wring personality issues and ...
TwinCities.com

Minnesota schools give standards-based grading system a closer look

Some Minnesota educators are on a mission to take the guesswork out of grades. A growing number of school districts in the state and across the nation are looking at overhauling how they size up ...
WUWM

Some Wisconsin Schools Use Standards-Based Grading...What Is That?

Science teacher David Venne invites students to help him with a class demonstration at Racine Case High School. Several Wisconsin school districts are trying a new method of evaluating what students ...
Forbes

San Diego Schools Are Changing Their Grading System. Is It A Good Idea?

Some internet eyebrows shot up this week over headlines like “San Diego school districts overhauls grading system to combat racism.” It turns out that what San Diego is doing is following in the ...
The Morning Journal

Local Catholic schools use standards-based grading for effective grade communication system

St. Joseph Parish School, 32946 Electric Blvd. in Avon Lake, which is part of the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, is making strides in educational innovation by embracing standards-based grading. St.
EdSurge

Standards-Based Grading: Hope vs. Reality

Standards-based grading (SBG)—or competency-based grading—measures student progress relative to specific learning standards. This system of evaluation isolates the learning of content and mastery of ...
LAist

Why One Teacher Gave All 'A's' During Last Spring's Lockdowns -- And Why Another School Decided Not To Change A Thing

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Our news is free on LAist. To make ...
Connecticut Post

Standards-based grading offers a different model of assessing student learning in the classroom

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jerrid Kruse, Drake University (THE CONVERSATION) Some school districts, including ...
MLive

Move to standards-based grading coming to Ypsilanti Community Schools

YPSILANTI, MI - Ypsilanti Community Schools is moving toward a standards-based grading model at its high school that focuses on students’ progress toward mastering specific concepts without ...
Chicago Tribune

Standards-based grading gets an ‘F’ from old-school parents

Your kid comes home from school with an A in math and reading, a B in science and a D in history. Pretty easy to understand, right? Good marks in math, reading and science; got to buckle down and do ...