Shanghai teachers to give letter grades

Education commission overhauls the way performance is evaluated

Shanghai is overhauling how primary schools measure student performance after a pilot program showed the move could encourage a greater interest in education.

From this academic year, starting Sept 1, the written midterm and final exams that Chinese schools have relied on for decades will be scrapped, and instead parents will receive report cards on which their child is graded in each subject from A to D.