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 ...

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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 ...

At the request of a school board member, 28 local public school administrators, counselors and teachers banded as a committee to study the always challenging task of grading students. The board member ...

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 ...

C olleen Reed, an educational consultant, has heard high schoolers make “odd” — and misguided — declarations about institutions. “This school doesn’t have what I want.” “It’s not in a safe ...

Some school districts, including ones in Maine, New Mexico, Iowa and Oregon, are shifting to standards-based grading, where students are graded on the skills and concepts they learn instead of points ...

Move over em-dash, there’s a new AI giveaway. It’s hard to deny that AI is everywhere these days, and it’s no surprise that it’s making its way into classrooms. Since sneaky students are figuring out ...

ATLANTA — Students in Georgia may no longer be able to use their cellphones inside high schools. Lawmakers passed a bill that bans their use during the instructional day. Sasha Contreras is a senior ...