Top school districts in the East Bay are adopting some of the core principles of this grading approach while scrubbing any ...

January 8, 2026 - It's time for John Fensterwald's annual predictions for what's in store for education in 2026. Grading in most classrooms remains tied to rubrics devised by individual teachers and ...

Georgetown University announced additional reforms to its grading policy for the spring semester April 2 following weeks of student lobbying for more lenient academic standards amid the COVID-19 ...

Oregon education officials are quietly reviving a reform-minded method of grading focused on how well students master specific academic skills while de-emphasizing other traditional measures, like ...

Robert Talbert is a math professor, so numbers are his thing. And the way the grading system in education works has long bothered him. That became clear a few years ago, when a particularly bright ...

Faculty and administrators at Western Oregon University are aiming to increase student retention rates and foster academic equity by changing the university’s grading system. The small regional ...

Many Stanford students applauded the decision of several introductory STEM classes to switch to a Satisfactory/No Credit (S/NC) grading system due to the pandemic, saying it leads to more ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. University of Georgia students are petitioning for the university to adopt a ...

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has rolled out its updated syllabus for the 2025-2026 academic session, introducing several changes aimed at enhancing the educational experience for ...