Math teachers at a Queens high school are being forced to pass failing kids, including those who can’t be bothered to show up ...

Teachers at Flushing High School claim the school’s grading system is forcing them to pass students who are actually failing ...

Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District officials expressed concern last week over high numbers of failing math grades, with more than 800 secondary students receiving D or F marks in the fall ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV/Gray News) - A school district in Missouri adopted a new grading system that prevents students from receiving a zero even if they didn’t do the assignment. The Kansas City ...

Robert Talbert is a math professor, so numbers are his thing. And the way the grading system in education works has long bothered him. That became clear a few years ago, when a particularly bright ...

Under the new system, students are graded on a 1–4 scale, with a score of 4 indicating performance above grade level for that ...

This post is by Sarah Strong, Ninth Grade Math Teacher, High Tech High, and Carlee Hollenbeck, 12th Grade Math Teacher, High Tech High North County A lively group of 11th grade students is sitting on ...

Here are two responses to teacher Matthew Boswell's Feb. 3 critique of Montgomery County's new grading system, which prohibits any grade below 50 percent, even if an assignment is not done. Dear Extra ...

Two years ago, Charlie Herzog asked: Should we continue to assign students grades in the traditional manner (percentages & letters), or should we move towards a system based on levels of mastery? I ...