Our students don’t write to impress a rubric--they write to be heard, and using AI to grade student writing misses the mark.

Grading papers is hard work. “I hate it,” a teacher friend confessed to me. And that’s a major reason why middle and high school teachers don’t assign more writing to their students. Even an efficient ...

Fairview High School senior Andrew Prazen measures cattails near Viele Lake in Boulder on Sept. 12. Paul Strode’s science class uses a type of grading system invented by his wife, Sarah Zerwin ...

The problem, he argues, is that school’s feedback system is broken. Grading things like writing assignments is such a time-consuming, arduous task for teachers — especially those who want to ...

Our Grading System Was Setting Students Up to Fail—Until This Change The bumpy but transformative switch to standards-based grading By Matthew Ebert — May 13, 2025 5 min read ...

Temple ISD has spent three years preparing for AI integration, testing platforms with volunteer teacher cohorts, and ...

These are essays that meet all of the official criteria for student writing: They have a thesis; they are polished, coherent, and well-argued; they support their points with evidence.

After that, this professor vowed never to use traditional grades on tests again. But he wasn’t quite sure what to replace them with. As Talbert soon discovered, there’s a whole world of so-called ...

The grading rubrics approximate and, at times, exceed college standards in terms of their rigor and nuance. Most of the writing graded matches that of any college freshman—formulaic rough drafts ...

A standards based grading system is only as good as the standards it’s built on. Some districts simply grabbed the Common Core Standards and used those; that was not a great choice.

An Arizona State University professor is calling for the end to “White supremacy language,” and to do away with the common way of grading papers in favor of labor-based grading ...

Texas Education Agency says the issue isn't the automated grading, but a new scoring rubric that gives more zeros By Wayne Carter • Published June 14, 2024 • Updated on June 14, 2024 at 4:21 pm ...