Justin O'Neal isn't too pleased his parents will discover his grades sooner under Jackson High School's new grading schedule. "I'll get grounded quicker," the 16-year-old said. The Jackson School ...

Top school districts in the East Bay are adopting some of the core principles of this grading approach while scrubbing any ...

Several years ago, during a one-on-one conversation with an art teacher at the middle school where I was principal, I came to an unsettling realization. We were wrestling with the fact that our ...

“Adopting this new grading system has the potential to improve our academic culture by reducing competition between and among students, by focusing communication between students and faculty on ...