States have invested enormous energy and political capital over the past decade in raising academic standards in American schools. A majority of parents and teachers believe those efforts are headed ...

It’s called standards-based education, and although it represents major change in decades of traditional educational theory, the idea is simple – making student learning the number one priority.

A coalition of nearly a dozen national education groups called last week for a set of “midcourse corrections” that it believes are necessary for the promise of standards-based education to be ...

GLENWOOD SPRINGS – While headlines around the country have referred to the move toward standards-based education in public schools as a “revolution,” the Roaring Fork School District Re-1 views it ...

PHOENIX -- A group of colleges that offer competency-based education programs this week released a draft set of voluntary quality standards for the emerging form of higher education. Competency-based ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 the first time, the influential board that sets standards for California public school teachers will include two voting ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Big changes are coming for sixth, seventh and eighth graders at Portland Public Schools this fall. Students will no longer receive letter grades when they return to school in ...

NORMAL — Nine students from Normal Community High School told their school board Wednesday night that an inconsistent grading system is hindering their education instead of helping it.