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Assessment In Case You Missed It: How Schools Are Measuring Student Success
Explore stories about grading practices, what truly reflects student achievement, and more.
Daniela Franco Brown, April 23, 2025
5 min read
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Assessment What Should Teachers Do When Students—or Parents—Ask for a Better Grade?
Plenty of students, and even parents, ask teachers to change their grades. Here's how teachers react.
Elizabeth Heubeck, April 14, 2025
6 min read
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Assessment Grading for Equity: Inside One District’s Big Policy Shift
Districts have been shifting grading to strictly assess student learning without add-ons such as extra credit.
Ileana Najarro, April 14, 2025
8 min read
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Assessment What Are Grades Really For? What Research Says About 4 Common Answers
Differing opinions about the purpose of grades are at the heart of the grading debate.
Evie Blad, April 14, 2025
6 min read
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Families & the Community Parents Think Their Kids Are Learning a Lot at School. What Do Students Say?
The perception gap between parents and their kids widens as students get older. Does it matter?
Caitlynn Peetz, January 24, 2025
5 min read
Happy African American elementary boy showing his family exam results with the red letter A.
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Student Achievement From Our Research Center Who's the Real Audience for A-F and Numeric Grades? Hint: It's Not the Students
Traditional grading systems help parents—as well as colleges and universities—get a sense of how students are doing, educators say.
Alyson Klein, December 5, 2023
2 min read
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Families & the Community Parents Don’t Know When Their Kids Have Fallen Behind. Report Cards Could Be the Problem
Parents rely on report cards to gauge whether their kids are on track academically. But they might be misleading, a survey shows.
Caitlynn Peetz, November 15, 2023
6 min read
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Assessment Opinion Grading Has Always Been an Imperfect Exercise. COVID-19 Made It Worse
It’s hard reducing the complexity of each student’s social, emotional, and academic learning to a letter grade. Maybe we’re doing it wrong.
Lory Walker Peroff, June 1, 2021
4 min read
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Assessment Opinion What Traditional Classroom Grading Gets Wrong
It's time to make grades bias-resistant and fairer, writes Joe Feldman. Four key aspects of equitable grading can help.
Joe Feldman, January 23, 2019
6 min read
Student Well-Being Is Your Child Showing Grit? School Report Cards Rate Students' Soft Skills
As more schools size up students on nonacademic skills such as grit and responsible decisionmaking, it's a challenge to make the feedback useful—and understandable—for parents.
Evie Blad, May 30, 2017
7 min read
Assessment Opinion Grading Standards Can Elevate Teaching
An accurate and fair grading system empowers teachers and students while also building trust, writes Joe Feldman.
Joe Feldman, November 12, 2014
6 min read
Student Well-Being New Character Report Cards Rate Students on 'Grit'
The KIPP charter school network and other schools are testing student report cards designed to measure key character traits.
Sarah D. Sparks, June 2, 2014
1 min read
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Assessment Opinion Why Grades Should Reflect Mastery, Not Speed
Schools need to change their grading to truly reflect students' comprehension of subjects, Ryan McLane writes.
Ryan McLane, June 3, 2013
5 min read
School Climate & Safety States Use School Score Cards to Target Climate Problems
Under a federal grant program, 11 states are using student surveys and select data to monitor and address issues around safety, discipline, and engagement.
March 26, 2013
8 min read