Of the six largest California public school districts, five have changed their grading systems to hold students harmless for their spring grades. Elk Grove Unified, south of Sacramento, is the only ...

Inside some University of California academic departments and colleges, an atypical idea is gaining steam: De-emphasize or even ditch the A-F grading system and rethink how to assess student learning.

While Loyola has a policy for converting letter grades to grade point averages, the same isn’t true for assigning grades, and ...