Grades have been shown to cultivate a fear of failure among students, at all ages, and inhibit them from taking intellectual ...
What’s in a grade? On its surface, a letter or number grade would appear to be a fixed measure of a student’s performance on a given assessment: a test, essay, project, or other tangible piece of work ...
The A–F grading scale has long been the cornerstone of measuring success in K-12 schools, but educators and researchers continue to question whether those letters truly reflect what students know, and ...
One teacher shared on Reddit that she was instructed to raise the grades of her failing students, but she refused. Now, her job is in danger. As if teachers didn't already have enough to worry about.
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Carrie Lukas, a mother of five, is president of Independent Women. Removing needless red tape and ideology in the teaching ...
The school district's superintendent is now standing up for the students. — -- A Native American high school student in California says a teacher lowered her and a friend's participation grades ...
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools plans to increase the number of students allotted per teacher in high schools next year due to budget concerns. The district currently allocates about 26.5 students per ...
For her 6th grade honors class, math teacher Ana Sepúlveda wanted to make geometry fun. She figured her students “who live and breathe soccer” would be interested to learn how mathematical concepts ...
Some kids love going to school. For others, it’s a daily challenge. One student took his hatred for school to another level, missing over 100 days of eighth grade. Shockingly, he will face no ...
A colleague of ours recently attended an AI training where the opening slide featured a list of all the ways AI can revolutionize our classrooms. Grading was listed at the top. Sure, AI can grade ...
Seventy-one teachers signed a letter to Superintendent Laura Winters demanding action about ongoing middle school student misbehavior. Winters insisted on teachers taking a survey instead about the ...
Grades are a standard part of the American educational system that most students and teachers take for granted. But what if ...