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Rarely have I received reaction to a column as vigorous — and as negative — as the flood of emails from teachers appalled by my opposition to a plan in Arlington, Va., to strike down traditional ...

As bad as the pandemic was for student learning, if some current education fads continue, the future could be worse. By now, almost everyone has seen reports about pandemic learning loss. A study ...

Inspired by what she learned in her Advanced Placement environmental science class, Ela Gokcigdem developed an environmental literacy course roughly two years ago as a student at Wakefield High School ...

The Northern Cass school district in North Dakota last spring graduated its first class of seniors who went through most of high school without receiving letter grades. Instead, their report cards ...

Las Vegas high-school English teacher Laura Jeanne Penrod initially thought the grading changes at her school district made sense. Under the overhaul, students are given more chances to prove they ...

I had a teacher conference today and met with most of my daughter's instructors and discussed her progress with them. The math teacher (8th grade Algebra II) decided to skip the meeting because he had ...

Grading homework assignments for a large class can be a time-consuming chore, and overworked teaching assistants often have little time to give students detailed feedback. But help may be on the way: ...

One of the most time-consuming aspects of teaching is grading homework assignments. So here’s an interesting crowdsourcing tool from Luca de Alfaro and Michael Shavlovsky at the University of ...

In another example of new thinking on homework, the school board in Middletown, Ohio, has proposed a new homework policy that would make grading homework a thing of the past. Under the policy, which ...