What's the best way to ensure that grading policies are fair, accurate, and consistent across classrooms How can schools transition to a grading system that better reflects what students are actually learning Tim R. Westerberg makes this journey easier by offering a continuum of options, with four destinations on the road to improved grading and assessment. Destination 1 critically examines such popular grading mechanisms as the zero, extra credit, the semester killer project, averaging, mixing academic performance with work ethic, and refusing to accept late work, and explains how they undermine objectivity and instead result in widely divergent grades for comparable work-with major consequences for students. Destination 2 invites educators to put assessment and grading into the larger context of a districtwide guaranteed and viable curriculum and lays out the organizational conditions and necessary steps to accomplish this goal. Destination 3 brings parents and others on board with a