Two school days. That’s all it took. In 2024, I chaperoned field trips two days in a row, for two different grade levels, and came back to roughly 450 ungraded assignments. I knew what to do, I’ve ...

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What is the purpose of education? For several decades, dating at least back to 1994 and former President Bill Clinton’s School-to-Work Opportunities Act, Democrats and Republicans agreed — the purpose ...

After Sylvia Carmel’s husband died last fall, she decided to try some of the activities at her retirement community in Towson, Md. “I do the exercise classes. I do the entertainment,” Carmel, 83, said ...

Harvard University faculty have voted to give out fewer A’s in a bid to combat grade inflation. Recruiters and hiring managers are relieved — and hoping it will help distinguish the best candidates ...

Higher education is in trouble — and grades are losing their meaning. That’s the verdict a committee from Yale University reached last month in a report that said universities have strayed from their ...

Harvard faculty will vote May 12 through 19 on a proposal to limit A grades to 20 percent (plus 4) of the students in a class. Somehow, elite professors giving elite students high grades has become ...

Imagine you’re comparing your grades with a friend after a test. One of you studied for hours while the other barely opened their textbook, but you both earned the same grade. The depth of a student’s ...

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Some Harvard students have launched a petition urging the university to abandon plans to pursue grading reform, calling it "racist." "We center racism as a core concern, contending that although the ...

Minnesota lawmakers are looking for a solution to combat the growing issue of “ghost students” stealing college financial aid. A House bill allots $1.5 million a year for new software at Minnesota ...