Three years after starting a pilot program using standards-based report cards, the Conroe ISD Board of Trustees has approved implementing the system for all second-grade students. Shellie Winkler, ...

School committee members this week voted to formally implement so-called “standards-based” report cards for students in Grade 5 that eschew familiar letter grades in favor of more substantive written ...

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When it comes to grading, most students have grown up with letter-based report cards, which place heavy emphasis on not only submitted work and test performance, but also participation and work ethic.

Parents at three elementary schools in the Fort Worth Independent School District got their first look at a new grading system earlier this month - one that doesn't use the letter grades parents and ...

Beginning next year, local fifth-graders will be spared the semester-end anxiety of reviewing their ABCs — at least where report cards are concerned. In a break with convention, school administrators ...

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 ...

The standard student report card -- with traditional grades of A, B and C -- may soon be a thing of the past in Buffalo. In its place, a school district committee proposes a five-page "standards-based ...

It's too early for even a pass-fail grade, but a report card reform idea by a Buffalo School District committee deserves serious consideration. The committee wants to change grading to a five-page ...