Answers to Essential Questions About Standards, Assessments, Grading, and Reporting

The definitive guidebook to the complex terrain of 21st-century standards!

Standards, assessments, grading, and reporting provide the foundation for nearly every initiative in modern education reform. But what do these terms actually mean? This easy-to-use Q&A gives short, simple, jargon-free answers to the questions that frequently stymie educators. Readers will come away with:

• A consistent vocabulary and frame of reference to share with other educators


• An understanding of effective implementation in all four areas


• Specific ideas for purposeful action


• Common ground that teachers, leadership teams, schools, and districts can use as a basis for successful improvement efforts