Wisdom says that democracy works only by adapting certain inequalities of excellence to qualify its main principle of equality. To expose them, professors have to grade sensibly.

Grading effort and participation are more subjective and much harder, so having open, positive relations with students and parents is step one. When students understood their grade, saw that it was ...

Researchers from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have partnered with two universities to administer a collaborative $2 million grant to promote equitable and inclusive grading practices ...

Much of the recent focus on artificial intelligence-driven ed-tech tools has been on ChatGPT and keeping students honest, but could AI keep graders on track too? The ed-tech platform Copyleaks is ...

Prasad is a fourth-year medical student and public policy graduate student in Austin, Texas. A “quiet but consequential erosion of standards” is how a Republican Texas state senator described ...

SACRAMENTO – Modern public-education history is littered with novel education theories that have failed so spectacularly that the terms are now used as pejoratives. For instance, when I was in ...

Why are Indiana lawmakers trying to dismantle pass-fail grading systems? As the largest medical school in the U.S., Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM) utilizes a pass-fail grading system, ...

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The number of Arizona schools that received an "F" letter grade doubled since last year, but that could open the door for state improvement funding.