To help make better sense of the debate, we've outlined a few of the pros and cons of traditional letter grading below: Advocates for the conventional grading system say it helps students easily ...

Schools in affluent neighborhoods get high grades, which causes more families to buy homes in those districts.

The innovative system abandons the rigid framework of letter grades in favor of an evaluation of students’ mastery of a subject and areas for improvement. At first glance, the standards-based ...

The traditional grading system, using percentages or letter grades from A to F, has been the standard for educational assessment for decades. Its clarity makes it easy to understand; for instance ...

More than a quarter of Tennessee's public K-12 schools could face corrective action and audits from the state after receiving Ds or Fs under a new grading system. Tennessee released letter grades ...

Recently appointed Tennessee Education Commissioner Lizzette Gonzalez Reynolds was also on hand for the Thursday meeting as Laird presented the new letter grade system. The new plan was met with ...

Abandoning letter grades is fraught with challenges ... For example, he said, the district deployed the new grading system without first consulting with colleges. “Of course, you can imagine ...

Michigan's public schools will no longer be ranked based on their performance using an A-F grading system. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed House Bill 4166 Monday to eliminate the letter grade system ...

Yet, under a proposed new accountability system that would assign letter grades to schools based on performance, more than half the schools are expected to earn A's and B's. The plan is outlined ...