The Northern Cass school district in North Dakota last spring graduated its first class of seniors who went through most of high school without receiving letter grades. Instead, their report cards ...

Two co-authors of the new book, The Essentials For Standards-Driven Classrooms: A Practical Instructional Model For Every Student To Achieve Rigor, agreed to answer a few questions. Carla Moore, MSEd, ...

Grading in most classrooms remains tied to rubrics devised by individual teachers and rooted in century-old practices. Recently, amid a broader national trend, grading systems in schools have come ...

Science teacher David Venne invites students to help him with a class demonstration at Racine Case High School. Several Wisconsin school districts are trying a new method of evaluating what students ...

Krista Wolfram might be out running errands or in the pickup line at her daughter’s school when the alert appears on her smartphone. Sometimes, it’s a picture from 7-year-old Serenity’s writing ...

This chapter discusses the relationships between formative and summative assessments—both in the classroom and externally. In addition to teachers, site-and district-level administrators and decision ...