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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Instead of focusing on student behaviors, standards-based grading assesses if students are actually learning what's being taught.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jerrid Kruse, Drake University (THE CONVERSATION) Some school districts, including ...