The Wayzata School District is planning to implement a standards-based 4-3-2-1 grading system at its three middle schools for the 2016-2017 academic year. The system, called Grading for Learning, ...

Knox County Schools will be freezing grades for high school students and averaging third-quarter grades with previous grades for students in kindergarten through 8th grade, the district announced on ...

San Francisco's public school system has canceled plans to launch a pilot grading reform program after a wave of criticism from local officials and families who argued the changes would dilute ...

Officials with the San Francisco Unified School District said they have backed down on a proposal to alter grading procedures in the city's high schools, following widespread backlash. On Tuesday, the ...

While San Francisco's recently halted equity grading scheme sparked national uproar and derision, the real lesson of this fiasco is the near-total lack of transparency in the school district's ...

DOOR COUNTY - After an abrupt move to online learning to finish off the academic year as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, Door County school boards faced the question about assessing students' ...

In the future, a principal in Idaho could celebrate if his school got a score of 99 from the state. But move the school to Arizona, and that score could push a principal to look for a new job. As more ...

Tim Fang is a digital producer at CBS Bay Area. A Bay Area native, Tim has been a part of the CBS Bay Area newsroom for more than two decades and joined the digital staff in 2006. Officials with the ...