For decades, school districts have sorted students into neat grade groupings: K–5, 6–8, 9–12. But those lines have blurred. Some districts are reviving stand-alone middle schools. Others are phasing ...
Some school districts, including ones in Maine, New Mexico, Iowa and Oregon, are shifting to standards-based grading, where students are graded on the skills and concepts they learn instead of points ...
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 ...