(STACKER) – Formal education systems have been in place for thousands of years—from the earliest examples of China’s Xia dynasty schooling that began in 2070 B.C., to the robust, philosophically based ...

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 ...

Grading in most classrooms remains tied to rubrics devised by individual teachers and rooted in century-old practices. Recently, amid a broader national trend, grading systems in schools have come ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some Harvard students have launched a petition urging the university to abandon plans to pursue grading reform, calling it "racist ...

This staff editorial solely represents the majority view of The Crimson Editorial Board. Although the fifth Monday of the semester — the last day for students to switch a course to pass-fail — has ...