Teachers and school leaders can work together to ensure that report cards function as trustworthy indicators of what students know and can do.

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 ...

Competency-based education, proficiency-based learning, mastery-based learning, personalized learning, student-centered education, and standards-based education are all terms that refer to the same ...

Apr. 13—Alette HahnHansen repeats a short phrase to keep herself motivated: "Oscar, doctor, president." The 17-year-old, a junior at Santa Fe High School, hopes to win an Oscar, earn a doctorate and ...

With a years-long shift to skills-based instruction and grading, this district found an unexpected outcome—an increase in AP ...

California law mandates standards-based instruction from kindergarten through high school in dance, music, theater and visual art. Yet, according to a recent report by SRI Education, nearly 90% of our ...

At the Parker-Varney school in Manchester, grades are not part of the curriculum. “Mastery” is. Students work their way through individual concepts, like long division or the mathematical order of ...

Competency-based education is an approach focused on equipping students with practical skills for future life and work. A new policy review examining Thailand’s version of this reform reveals its ...