Introduction / Thomas R. Guskey. -- Bridges freeze before roads / K. Heidi Watts. -- Reporting on student learning: lessons from the past, prescriptions for the future / Thomas R. Guskey. -- The role of cooperative learning in assessing and communicating student learning / David W. Johson and Roger T. Johnson. -- Grading and academic feedback for special education students and students with learning difficulties / Russell Gersten, Sharon Vaughn, and Susan Unok Brengelman. -- Beyond the A: communicating the learning progress of gifted students / Kathy Bearden Peckron. -- Reporting student progress: one district's attempt with student literacy / Kenneth W. Eastwood. -- Communicating student learning in the visual arts / Bernard Schwartz. -- Reporting methods in grades K-8 / Kathy Lake and Kery Kafka. -- Reporting achievement at the secondary level: what and how / Jane Bailey and Jay McTighe. -- Honesty and fairness: toward better grading and reporting / Grant Wiggins. -- Technology's promise for reporting student learning / W. Ross Brewer and Bena Kallick.