When students enter high school, they're often told about the importance of achieving a high grade point average. In general, GPA serves as the most comprehensive indicator of a student's overall ...

Gaps in high school GPA have widened over time, making it more difficult than ever for minority and lower-income students to distinguish themselves as academic contenders through their grades alone.

While many high schools and middle schools adopted pass-fail grading at the start of the pandemic in order ... students’ grades are slipping. Los Angeles Unified Superintendent Austin Beutner ...