Assessments based on the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are coming to many states. To date, 18 states have adopted NGSS. Other states have or are adopting new science standards that are ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Standards-based reform” in the heyday of the education reform movement was a bit like the title of a recent film: Everything ...
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You can’t know what you don’t measure, and you can’t accurately track progress if the tool keeps changing. Yet, Oklahoma leaders ...
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 ...
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 ...
A public meeting to discuss Standards Based Learning as it relates to high school is set for 7 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 25 at the Forest City High School Auditorium. The public is asked to submit ...