Glenwood Springs Middle School science teacher Rob Buirgy knows teaching the scientific method to seventh-graders can be a challenge.Students must grasp each step, from hypotheses to conclusion.

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 ...

In Laurie Pennington’s science classes at Gunn High School, standards-based grading has tested students’ and parents’ firm attachment to traditional grades. This is the fourth year she’s used the form ...

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 ...

This past school year, standards-based grading and learning was fully implemented at Battle Mountain and Eagle Valley high schools. Over the past several years, Eagle County School District has ...

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 ...

Some students in Wisconsin will soon see different grades on their report cards, and there are some worries that those grades ...

In a letter sent out on Thursday, October 9, the district announced with updates to the curriculum and teachers being trained ...

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 ...