Across the country, universities are using this and other alternative grading models that guarantee high marks based on some standard other than merit. Alternative grading schemes like these—often ...
Corey Moses of the Hartford Federation of Teachers speaks at a press conference advocating for a state loan program for graduate students. Credit: Courtesy / CT-N Gov. Ned Lamont has proposed a ...
Connecticut residents can now apply for grants to help pay off student loans. The Connecticut Student Loan Reimbursement Program is accepting applications for student loan payments made during the ...
It’s time for Harvard students to say goodbye to their straight-A’s. On Friday, a committee of faculty advised the school to adopt a 20% cap on A’s to beat back grade inflation — a stark reduction ...
Harvard students slammed a proposal to cap A grades and use raw percentage scores for internal awards, warning that the changes would intensify academic competition, misrepresent students’ mastery of ...
Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano is a fourth grade student in Columbia Heights. Social worker Tracy Xiong said she and her mother were taken by ICE. Ex-FBI agent notices something odd about Nancy Guthrie ...
There has been a wave of new state laws restricting students’ cellphone use in school, and that trend doesn’t appear to be slowing anytime soon as more states are introducing cellphone bills this year ...
San Francisco’s school district is expanding a tutoring program that more than doubled students’ reading proficiency rates last year, a bright spot in the district’s push to raise literacy scores ...
More high school graduates are opting for a two-year degree or even shorter-term credentials. This year, enrollment gains in undergraduate certificate and associate degree programs outpaced bachelor ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For more than 80 years, students at least in seventh grade through college in the U.S. have generally earned one grade for a ...
A Kentucky teacher was arrested for allegedly sending a fifth-grade student sexually explicit messages — including one sickening text saying she needed to “taste that d–k.” Sydnee Graf, 36, a ...
The University of Oklahoma said Monday that the graduate teaching assistant who assigned a failing grade to a student for a psychology essay on gender stereotypes will “no longer have instructional ...