Students work on a literacy assignment at a Texas elementary school. Standards based on the science of reading have been shown to improve achievement. Credit: Jackie Mader for The Hechinger Report The ...

Quality Counts at 10: What’s Next for Standards-Based Reform? Feb. 1, 2006 Marshall S. Smith, program director for education at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, discusses what the future has ...

• 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, ...

Apr. 13—Alette HahnHansen repeats a short phrase to keep herself motivated: "Oscar, doctor, president." The 17-year-old, a junior at Santa Fe High School, hopes to win an Oscar, earn a doctorate and ...

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 ...

California law mandates standards-based instruction from kindergarten through high school in dance, music, theater and visual art. Yet, according to a recent report by SRI Education, nearly 90% of our ...

As cratering test scores intensify California’s resolve to improve student reading, one thing appears certain: the state’s newest teachers need to know how to teach literacy using foundational reading ...

For generations, school-aged children (and their parents) have measured academic progress the same way, with a single letter grade of A, B, C, D or F. It was a simple ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Alette HahnHansen repeats a short phrase to keep herself motivated: “Oscar, doctor, president.” The 17-year-old, ...