A nything Harvard College does draws attention. So it was no surprise that a recent report arguing that undergraduate grading practices are “out of whack,” as one professor put it, got a lot of buzz.

In order to regain public trust in higher education, a long-awaited Yale University report makes 20 recommendations regarding ...

Prasad is a fourth-year medical student and public policy graduate student in Austin, Texas. A “quiet but consequential erosion of standards” is how a Republican Texas state senator described ...

Standards-based grading provides a more transparent assessment of the extent the intended learning is happening in the ...

The Northern Cass school district in North Dakota last spring graduated its first class of seniors who went through most of high school without receiving letter grades. Instead, their report cards ...

Course grades: a familiar source of anxiety for some, a source of pride for others, and a near-universal signal of student success in U.S. schools. Few features of our education system are more ...

SACRAMENTO – Modern public-education history is littered with novel education theories that have failed so spectacularly that the terms are now used as pejoratives. For instance, when I was in ...

As standardized student test scores plunge, some school districts are responding by masking student knowledge deficiencies through equity grading, which is little more than grade inflation dressed up ...

Joe: Rick, you’ve written recently about the harms of grade inflation and how a primary cause is educators who, influenced by “equitable grading,” compromise rigor and award students higher grades ...

During the most recent school year, KCPS launched a different grading system where the minimum grade on any given assignment is 40% — even if the student didn’t do a single bit of it. It has drawn a ...

Planned Parenthood’s 2025 Annual Report: More Abortions, More Taxpayer Dollars, and Fewer Health Services Inside, Outside U.S.A. Big-City Mayors Are Increasingly Community Organizers The American ...