Education College Grading System Considers Student Effort February 2, 200512:00 AM ET Heard on Morning Edition By ...

Inside some University of California academic departments and colleges, an atypical idea is gaining steam: deemphasizing, or even ditching, the A-F grading system and rethinking how to assess student ...

The answers were all extremely similar: standards-based grading does not negatively impact students during the college admissions process. Each admissions officer I spoke with talked about how schools ...

Serving the Brown University community since 1891Two professors at Benedict College in South Carolina were fired recently for refusing to systematically factor effort into students' grades. Effort ...