This staff editorial solely represents the majority view of The Crimson Editorial Board. Although the fifth Monday of the semester — the last day for students to switch a course to pass-fail — has ...

Prasad is a fourth-year medical student and public policy graduate student in Austin, Texas. A “quiet but consequential erosion of standards” is how a Republican Texas state senator described ...

A public school system in Dublin, California ran a pilot project in standards-based grading, until the school board suspended it after pushback from parents. When a public school system in the San ...

Ted Forringer is Assistant Department Head of Physics. The Challenges with the Standard Grading System: As faculty, we are all familiar with what I would call the "standard grading system," in which ...

Most educators think that A through F or numeric grades aren’t a “very effective” way to reflect what students know and can do. So, what is the benefit of those systems? Why are these systems still in ...

Dating back to 2,500 years ago in Ancient Greece, grades were never once used. Yet, it still spawned the greatest thinkers and writers of all time. Instead of applying grades, they used formative ...

State officials have approved major changes to the system for evaluating annual performance of K-12 schools, a move that some district leaders warn will lead to lower rankings and fewer workforce ...

I’ve always been obsessed with achieving straight A’s on my report card. The school I attended from preschool through sixth grade pushed me to think that as long as you get an A, you can be happy, ...