The jewelry industry’s most respected gemological authority has announced a change in how it will evaluate lab-grown gems. By Amy Elliott A certain type of engagement ring seems to have reached peak ...

North Carolina education officials want to change the way public schools are graded, moving away from a heavy focus on test ...

Students in Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) are rejecting a plan to change the grading system in the upcoming school year. The changes will affect sixth through 12th-grade students, and many ...

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. — Ten students took a day off of summer break to speak out against a new policy that aims to fight grade inflation in Montgomery County Public Schools at a school board meeting ...

Lewiston-Altura School District (L-A) staff members have been working over the last several years to implement a new type of grading focused on measuring students’ progress based on whether they’ve ...

The new school year is just weeks away, and in Montgomery County, Maryland, students are preparing to adjust to a new grading policy — one that some students complained will cost them as they work ...

GERMANTOWN, Md. (7News) — Nearly 160,000 students in Montgomery County are expected to flood back into classrooms on Tuesday to kick off the new school year, and their return is coming with some ...

The Arkansas Department of Education released public school letter grades on Friday, with roughly three-quarters of public K-12 schools receiving grades of C or higher. The letter grades are the first ...

Public school ratings released by the state Department of Education under a new grading system last week show an overall improvement for the Little Rock School District, and continue a trend of ...

Leaders of Wisconsin’s Department of Public Instruction said that its new report card grading system was fully determined by a 26-member advisory committee that work with the contracted Center for ...