In his Sept. 14 piece, “The Danger With Giving Students Feedback,” Alfie Kohn cites a 2020 Duke study which found that the traditional practice of grading can damage student motivation and performance ...

Grades are a standard part of the American educational system that most students and teachers take for granted. But what if ...

NASHUA – After teachers, students and staff advocated to maintain the Nashua School District’s new competency-based grading system, a motion to replace the system failed by a narrow margin before the ...

NASHUA – Acing a test won’t just get Nashua students an “A+” under a new grading system adopted by the Board of Education Monday night. It will also get them a 100, a 4, and a recap of their course ...

NASHUA — After rolling out the next generation of report cards at a pair of public workshops with a panel of teachers, a PowerPoint presentation and plenty of multi-colored handouts, school ...

You know that old interview question: What would change in education if you had a magic wand? For Scott Looney, there’d be no hesitating: He would have every school switch from traditional grading to ...

Schools that have or are planning to adopt competency-based learning have access to a new report that offers guidance in how to assess student progress. In 42 pages "Progress and Proficiency: ...

NASHUA — Students will soon be receiving new report cards with slews of scores that reflect their knowledge and abilities in each course. The school district is piloting the new competency-based ...

Editor's note: This is the third in a series on Spaulding High's new competency based grading system. ROCHESTER— Cell phone in hand, Facebook on the computer, iPod headphones set to loud — the ...

ROCHESTER— At a meeting of the School Board's Instruction Committee Thursday night, committee members were presented with information about the new competency-based grading model that will be ...

Standards-based grading (SBG)—or competency-based grading—measures student progress relative to specific learning standards. This system of evaluation isolates the learning of content and mastery of ...