The new grading scale assesses students based on specific learning goals and largely removes homework from the grading equation.

There was a story in The Wall Street Journal in late April that should concern parents across America. It wasn't about inflation or the peril facing regional banks: It was more serious than that. It ...

A big controversy is brewing over homework in the Irving Independent School District, where teachers are no longer allowed to give grades for homework assignments. Teachers are only supposed to grade ...

In its first meeting of the 2015-16 school year, the Palo Alto school board will tackle a 200-plus page research report that sheds light on both similarities and disparities in curriculum, homework, ...

School officials in Arlington, Virginia, are planning to table proposed changes to the school system’s homework policy to give staff more time to evaluate the impact of some of the recommendations.

The value of homework is suddenly under the microscope, and leaders of the Lafayette Parish school district have decided it should no longer be graded. School districts around the state also are ...

VIRGINIA BEACH -- A group of parents is fighting against implementing a new grading method where homework doesn't count. "Rather than providing you with a single letter-grade for your child's ...

At the beginning of the school year, some Baltimore County students came home convinced that homework no longer meant anything, as the public school system introduced changes to grading policy on a ...