Students are handed beads by parents as they walk in for the first day of school at Shelby Oaks Elementary School in Memphis, Tenn., on Monday, August 5, 2024. The Tennessee Department of Education ...

In an attempt at easing the high school-to-college transition, some U.S. universities have begun implementing unorthodox student assessment methods, reigniting a debate over whether the traditional ...

The Arkansas Department of Education released public school letter grades on Friday, with roughly three-quarters of public K-12 schools receiving grades of C or higher. The letter grades are the first ...

The Warrensville Heights City School District is the latest local school district to transition from letter grades to a standards-based grading system intended to wring personality issues and ...

More than a quarter of Tennessee's public K-12 schools could face corrective action and audits from the state after receiving Ds or Fs under a new grading system. Tennessee released letter grades for ...

Can you accurately describe the performance of a school with a letter grade, if the same evaluation method is used throughout the state and makes standardized test scores a driving factor?

StudySoup used internet sources on the history of education to compile a list of 10 historical milestones that occurred with the letter grading system to lead to where it is today in the United States ...

Letter grades applied by the state to Arkansas schools as a gauge of school quality are largely unchanged from 2022 and remain below results from the pre-pandemic year of 2018-2019. A total of 80 of ...

After attending a conference at Monticello, I saw a conversion chart describing the correlation between letter grades and the 0 through four grading system used by the elementary and middle schools.

Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe has signed an executive order to simplify the grading scale used to measure school growth, ...

Editors note: This story has been corrected to show the accurate TDOE letter grade change for Snowden Elementary School. The Tennessee Department of Education released state letter grades for schools ...