PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Big changes are coming for sixth, seventh and eighth graders at Portland Public Schools this fall.
Students will no longer receive letter grades when they return to school in late August. Instead, teachers will use a standards-based approach to assess student learning.
The change will impact students at all PPS middle schools as well as students in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades at the district’s Kindergarten through eighth grade schools.
In an email sent to parents July 16, Robert Gray Middle School Teacher Melissa Sagba said that the new system will focus on learning, not grades…