What's especially humiliating is that Florida is the birthplace of the school testing movement, the state where former Gov. Jeb Bush decided in 1999 to begin awarding overall letter grades to individual schools to provide information for parents and help assess statewide educational performance. (governing.com)
Oregon is proposing that schools will receive no overall letter grade or score but will instead use a multiple - measure dashboard of indicators that reflect opportunities for students to learn, academic success, and college and career readiness. (blog.edmentum.com)
Each component was worth a specified percentage of the overall letter grade, and I computed the overall course grade by combining the grades for the five components according to the predetermined weight of each. (ascd.org)