Democrats unveiled their own proposal Wednesday for how the state should evaluate Maine's public schools, even as state education officials announced follow-up plans for schools that got D's and F's ...

Good grading starts long before a class ends.

Most parents responding to a recent survey like the experimental changes made in some elementary school report cards this past year _ including a change in the traditional A, B, C's for younger ...

Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Joel Klein are moving toward bringing a truly revolutionary concept to the public schools: accountability for improving student performance. They have decided to begin ...

Bethlehem Area School District administrators are poised to begin the second five-year phase of its academic-standards initiative. Superintendent Thomas J. Doluisio presented the plan to the school ...

While San Francisco's recently halted equity grading scheme sparked national uproar and derision, the real lesson of this fiasco is the near-total lack of transparency in the school district's ...