Students work on a literacy assignment at a Texas elementary school. Standards based on the science of reading have been shown to improve achievement. Credit: Jackie Mader for The Hechinger Report The ...

Quality Counts at 10: What’s Next for Standards-Based Reform? Feb. 1, 2006 Marshall S. Smith, program director for education at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, discusses what the future has ...

The rollout of the Common Core State Standards has been bumpy, to say the least. Alaska, Nebraska, Texas, and Virginia rejected the common core from the outset. Oklahoma and Indiana have withdrawn ...

• Madison School District is changing how students learn throughout the year, maintaining the grading system Madison used in middle school • East High School has already switched to the new system, ...

Apr. 13—Alette HahnHansen repeats a short phrase to keep herself motivated: "Oscar, doctor, president." The 17-year-old, a junior at Santa Fe High School, hopes to win an Oscar, earn a doctorate and ...

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This past school year, standards-based grading and learning was fully implemented at Battle Mountain and Eagle Valley high schools. Over the past several years, Eagle County School District has ...

Bowling Green Junior High Principal Robert Lightning recalled how over the decades, students discussed letter grades after getting test results. But these days, amid a shift from traditional grading, ...

For generations, school-aged children (and their parents) have measured academic progress the same way, with a single letter grade of A, B, C, D or F. It was a simple ...

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