School district scraps traditional ‘A-F’ grading system for kinder, gentler model
New grading scales obscure a child’s true performance
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When the staff at an “independent journal of politics and world affairs” complain to Georgetown University officials, they get results.
Two private colleges are refusing to engage with criticisms of their decisions to censor or punish political speech, though one of them appears to have escaped scrutiny by a group that defends faculty rights.
The president of Wake Forest University has issued an apology on behalf of his institution for the university’s role in promoting and engaging in the institution of slavery some 160 years ago.
A journalism professor who equated the dismissive phrase “OK, boomer” with the n-word in class will step down for the rest of the semester and has agreed to play pupil in racial sensitivity courses, the administration said.
A North Carolina university that recently made headlines for apologizing for slavery is in the midst of a program that offers a new take on the discipline of classics to make up for its history of “abusive and exclusionary” curriculum.
There’s a growing trend on college campuses nationwide to use tracking apps on students to monitor their attendance and compel them to go to class, underscoring the ever-increasing scuttlebutt to deploy facial recognition software on them, too.
Classics faculty at Oxford University have proposed that two ancient epics from its introductory class be dropped in order to “reduce attainment gaps.”
All students, regardless of their background or school, learn more from tough teachers, according to a new study by Seth Gershenson, associate professor at the School of Public Affairs at American University.
Hundreds of grad students pledge not to fill vacant positions