Letter grades ‘standard’-bearers no more
UK professors are hoping to use levels of content mastery to determine grades.
Final schools earn TELL survey cash
Kentucky schools and educators earned cash prizes recently for their participation in the fourth and final week of the Teaching, Empowering, Leading and Learning (TELL) Kentucky survey. The winners are: School: Horizons Academy, Nelson County school district Educator: Prichard Elementary, Carter County school district School districts with 50 percent or higher participation: Boyd County (87.87 percent) and Erlanger-Elsmere Independent (91.16 [...]
Miles Elementary goes to standards-based grading
For the second year in a row, students at Miles Elementary School (Erlanger-Elsmere Independent) won’t receive grades. Yet teachers and the principal say students and their parents are better informed about what the children know – and what skills and information they still need to master. Bryant Gillis, in his seventh year as principal, said he never figured out in his 36 years in education what an A really means.