Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For high school students, grade point average is often a major focal point -- a barometer of their academic success. GPA is a ...

FAIRFIELD — While most agreed the Fairfield City Schools grading scale was in need of change, some are crying fowl at the new scale, saying it gives incentive for Advanced Placement students to take ...

UPPER DUBLIN >> Grading and GPA scales, course selection, student placement, and elementary science curriculum changes headlined at the school board’s education committee meeting Monday night. To ...

Though grading scales that combine A-‘s and B+’s into AB’s appear to be a relatively good in theory, the actual application of this system here at University of Wisconsin usually results in unbalanced ...

CALCUTTA — Concern over Beaver Local’s grading scale and whether or not it’s hurting average students was brought to the attention of the school board by a father and school psychologist. Ron Hockman, ...

Plans are in the works to implement a new GPA scale at Saugus High School similar to the college board scale admissions departments use when evaluating transcripts. New Saugus High School Principal ...

The Norman Public Schools Board of Education is scheduled to vote on whether it wants to swipe the district’s 4.0 grade point average scale for a 5.0 scale at its meeting 7 tonight in the Curriculum ...

HANOVER COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A group of parents in Hanover County are pushing for the school system to switch to a 10-point grading scale. They say the current seven-point scale is outdated and puts ...

New Albany-Plain Local leaders have changed the grading scale, effective this school year, for middle school and high school students. Marcy Raymond, the middle school co-principal who was director of ...

For high school students, grade point average is often a major focal point — a barometer of their academic success. GPA is a factor in class rank, college admissions, scholarship eligibility and more; ...