Major decisions that affect the trajectory of students’ lives hinge on their high school grades: in-class support they might or might not receive, college admission offers, and potentially financial ...

STAAR test scores out Friday show small gains in some districts, but overall the results show not much change in how students are performing. Some superintendents say new grading practices for the ...

Students sitting for their STAAR exams this week will be part of a new method of evaluating Texas schools: Their written answers on the state's standardized tests will be graded automatically by ...

The number of elementary school students who received a zero on their state standardized essay test questions this spring increased by about 20% from last year. Among all third- to eighth-graders, ...

Is grading fair for new Common Core tests? Michelle Kohlhorst, a grader of new Common Core exams for PARCC and Pearson Inc., says the grading of the exams is fair to students because each response is ...

Amid the heated debates over testing, “grading for equity,” and test-optional college admissions, it’s easy to throw up one’s hands in exasperation. That’s what makes a new book by Ethan Hutt and Jack ...

Omaha Public Schools teachers want grading changes, while administrators hope to test the proposal first.KETV NewsWatch 7 reported in 2014 on OPS high schoolers scamming the current grading system -- ...

California will spend nearly $240 million in three years to administer and score its new standardized test, the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress.For that amount of money, one ...

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