Several colleges around the country are adapting a new grading system to their curriculum for incoming freshman: there is none! That’s right, the universities decided to make the transition into upper ...

During Gigi Segal’s first year at the California Polytechnic State University, she received several failing grades in her botany class, and to hear her tell it, she had Montgomery County Public ...

Faculty and administrators at Western Oregon University are aiming to increase student retention rates and foster academic equity by changing the university’s grading system. The small regional ...

Joy Malak floundered through her freshman year in college. "I had to learn how to balance my finances. I had to learn how to balance work and school and the relationship I'm in." The hardest part ...

In an attempt at easing the high school-to-college transition, some U.S. universities have begun implementing unorthodox student assessment methods, reigniting a debate over whether the traditional ...

Several years ago, during a one-on-one conversation with an art teacher at the middle school where I was principal, I came to an unsettling realization. We were wrestling with the fact that our ...

Students should not be reduced to a mere letter or number because it confines intelligence to the constraints of traditional grading practices. In most U.S.-based education systems, grades have become ...

Grades dictate our success in school and how future employers view our worth when leaving college. The grading system used in most places in the world incentivizes end result over the learning process ...