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Kentucky is the latest state to unveil an e-transcript service About 20 states require high schools to operate under an e-transcript service Insufficient technical resources could complicate the ...

This work is about having students go beyond "this is an A" to "this is what knowledge really looks like. --Edgar Montes, Mastery Transcript Consortium For decades students, educators, and parents ...

My grandson recently got a D in high school chemistry, prompting dire warnings from his mother (my daughter) about his "permanent record." However, in 1975, I too got a D in high school chemistry, ...

Conscientious teachers at any grade level know how difficult it is to grade students fairly and honestly. Although it may be easier in math and the sciences to put a number on students' achievements, ...

Ranking high school students’ academic success against that of their peers is a tradition. Tradition or not, 40 percent of high schools across the nation have kicked class rank off transcripts or ...

What if traditional high school transcripts -- lists of courses taken, grades earned and so forth -- didn't exist? That's the ambition of a new education reform movement, which wants to rebuild how ...