Schools can retool to make instruction more personalized and student-centered. But grading is a common sticking point.

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 non ...

Standards based grading, or SBG, is a grading system that measures students’ progress towards mastery of specific learning goals. These goals or standards are developed at the state level. Our ...

The Chippewa Falls Middle School is doing away with the traditional system of letter grades. Instead it is switching to standards-based grading to mark student progress.

When a public school system in the San Francisco Bay Area explored replacing traditional grading practices with a form of “standards-based grading system” meant to eliminate bias, it sparked ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - The Wentzville School District announced a new change in its grading system for elementary schools. Starting in 2025-26, the district says that elementary schools will ...

Eagle County Schools to pilot standards-based grading this year New grading policy to create system that focuses on what students know and can do ...

Annually, St. Joseph has added grade levels participating in the new grading system, including kindergarten through third grade during the 2023-24 school year.

It's a grading system designed to "communicate students' strengths and areas for improvement in relation to the state standards," Townsley said. In a standards-based grading framework, students ...

Our first reaction to standards-based grading was despair. Then, slowly, things began to change.

Standards based grading allows for a broad range of implementation. If your district decides to do it, there are several factors that they can get right or get terribly, terribly wrong.

The Kaneland Unit District 302 school board voted unanimously Monday to sunset the district's standards-based grading system at the end of the 2023-2024 school year for students in grades 6-12 ...