One teacher shared on Reddit that she was instructed to raise the grades of her failing students, but she refused. Now, her job is in danger. As if teachers didn't already have enough to worry about.
Grade inflation happens when teachers knowingly give a student a mark higher than deserved. It can also happen indirectly, when the level of difficulty of a course is deliberately lowered so students ...
What’s in a grade? On its surface, a letter or number grade would appear to be a fixed measure of a student’s performance on a given assessment: a test, essay, project, or other tangible piece of work ...
New trends take over social media in about as much time as it takes to make one post. When a man shared his thoughts on how grades don’t necessarily correlate with greatness, he had plenty of people ...
The city Department of Education is once again investigating a bad teacher for fixing grades — more than a decade after trying to fire him for falsifying Regents test scores, The Post has learned.
There is a longstanding debate about whether traditional grading—letter grades based on a student’s content knowledge, classroom behavior, and extra credit—appropriately measures student success.