Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Big changes are coming for sixth, seventh and eighth graders at Portland Public Schools this fall.

Standards-based grading (SBG)—or competency-based grading—measures student progress relative to specific learning standards. This system of evaluation isolates the learning of content and mastery of ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The movement toward standards-based learning has been in motion for over 30 years, yet there is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write on the human/political issues surrounding college admissions. The U.S. education system's decades-long focus on standards, ...

Given my complaining about the dearth of control group research in the spreading, and I think troublesome, standards-based grading movement, I must give special attention to a new study that reveals ...

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 ...

I offer this in response to a letter to the editor earlier this week regarding the standards-based learning model. Mark Twain said, “I’m in favor of progress; it’s change I don’t like,” and in a ...

The Wisconsin Dells School District wants to better measure how well students are doing in relation to grade-level standards, instead of simply concluding this based on assignment/test scores and work ...

Meridian Public Schools Superintendent Sarah Glann is excited about some quiet work behind the scenes that aims to set the district on a good long-term path academically. "It’s not flashy. But it's ...

• The Madison school district is changing how students learn throughout the year, maintaining the grading system Madison used in middle school • East High School has already switched to the new system ...