Based on the recommendation of State School Superintendent Richard Woods, the Georgia Department of Education has posted new K-12 English Language Arts standards for a 30-day public comment period. If ...

For almost the past four decades, academic standards have been a defining focus of efforts to improve student achievement. The movement for high academic standards—determinations of what students ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee State Board of Education launched an English Language Arts standards feedback survey to gather public comments on Tennessee’s K-12 ELA standards. The survey will ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee State Board of Education launched a second round of its feedback survey on the state's revised English Language Arts (ELA) academic standards. The survey gathers ...

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 ...

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 Warrensville Heights City School District is the latest local school district to transition from letter grades to a standards-based grading system intended to wring personality issues and ...