What’s larger, Heba Morad asks her fourth-grade classroom as she rounds the room: three-fourths or two-thirds? She speaks slowly and clearly, pausing so every student has time to consider the answer.

A recent survey of nearly 1,000 K-12 teachers found that about half had seen “equitable” grading policies used in their school or district and most reported the approach hurt academic engagement.

I went on a guided tour Thursday of Rome’s historic Colosseum and saw the significance of the barbarism there thousands of years ago. Rome presented its public executions as equitable since the person ...

Joe: Rick, you’ve written recently about the harms of grade inflation and how a primary cause is educators who, influenced by “equitable grading,” compromise rigor and award students higher grades ...

BEREA, Ohio -- Grading guidelines in the Berea City School District will change beginning with the 2024-25 school year to provide a more equitable way of evaluating student achievement. Director of ...

Rick: You’ve mentioned to me that there’s a mismatch between what the research on equitable grading says and the way the practice is regarded by its critics. Can you explain what you mean? Joe: I get ...

Students and parents have begun suing school districts over grading policies and practices they say are unfair. As a scholar of education who studies grading practices, I’ve seen how important grades ...