Student Report Cards
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.
Assessment
Nev. Students Accused of Hacking Network to Change Grades
Authorities in Pahrump, Nev., have arrested 13 people as part of an investigation into students' hacking into a school computer system to change class grades.
Special Education
Letter Clarifies Report Rules for Disabilities
School districts can refer to a student’s disability or special education status on report cards, but should generally not do so on transcripts, new federal guidance says.
Federal
Texas Move to Tighten GPA Formula Sparks Backlash
A formula that all high schools would have to use to calculate GPAs is encountering strong resistance from educators who fear it could discourage teenagers from taking challenging courses.
Assessment
Grade-Fixing Charges Hit Acclaimed School
A nationally recognized San Diego charter school has been hit by charges that school officials improperly changed student grades.
Assessment
As Report Cards Near, King Students Urged to Pick Up Pace
With charter schools under scrutiny and Louisiana’s high-stakes tests ahead, the school's teachers are exhorting students to do their part.
Assessment
Opinion
Grade Inflation: High Schools’ Skeleton in The Closet
Perry A. Zirkel looks at the negative effects of grade inflation, and the No Child Left Behind Act's hand in perpetuating the problem.
Assessment
Opinion
Course-Credit Inflation?
As enrollment in advanced courses has expanded to include a large percentage of the student population, troubling evidence has accumulated that high percentages of students receiving credit for these courses are not learning the content implied by their course titles, the authors argue.
Assessment
Tracking U.S. Trends
Besides updating key statistics, Technology Counts for the first time assigns letter grades to the states on leadership in three core areas of technology policy and practice: access, use, and capacity.
Assessment
Idaho Studies Minimum GPA for High School Admission
Simply completing the 8th grade might not be enough to make it to high school in Idaho.
Assessment
California Schools Experiment With Deletion of D's
English teachers at a California high school have deleted the letter D from their grade books.
Assessment
Ark. Poised to Again Require Minimum GPA for Sports
Athletic directors, educators, and coaches around Arkansas are speaking out against the state school board's decision to reinstate a policy that requires at least a 2.0 GPA for participation in sports and other extracurricular activities.
Assessment
Online Report Cards for Teacher Programs Draw Heavy Response
More than 7,000 people rushed late last fall to log on to a new Department of Education Web site that is intended to illuminate the quality of the nation's teacher-preparation programs and their graduates. The heavy first-day response both surprised and pleased federal administrators.
Assessment
Reports of Grade Inflation May Be Inflated, Study Says
A new study calls into question the popular notion that grading standards in the nation's high schools just aren't what they used to be.