The lack of a grading system for the popular stone has prompted a father-son team to spend the last five years working on one. Turquoise stones from the blue and green master sets at the Turquoise ...

SCHENECTADY, N.Y.—A principal-turned-consultant has built a movement—and a business—on overturning how teachers have graded for generations. His alternative: “grading for equity.” Joe ...

The San Francisco Unified School District said it is putting a pause on pursuing a proposed “Grading for Equity" strategy after it received major backlash from community members and politicians.

Fairfax County schools will allow students to retake tests and is adding a D- to its grading scale as the district and others try to rethink how to measure student performance.

The traditional grading system in America is under scrutiny for its detrimental effects on students, and its long-term consequences on the education system. In his new book, Failing Our Future ...

The letter grading system is believed to have originated at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. In 1897, the school adopted an A-to-E system: The A was equivalent to 95% to 100% ...

San Francisco education officials swiftly abandoned a controversial “equity grading” system for K-12 schools just a day after its introduction, following intense bipartisan backlash this past ...

Our first reaction to standards-based grading was despair. Then, slowly, things began to change. Our Grading System Was Setting Students Up to Fail—Until This Change (Opinion) ...

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; ...

The Henrico County school system will consider changing its grading policy to align with other large school systems that give letter grades based on a 10-point scale.

Consumer Reports explains the Uniform Tire Quality Grading system, aka UTQG, information found on tire sidewalls.