For most classes, I know what I have to do to get a good grade. Math, do more practice problems. Science, study the book and make flashcards. But with English classes, I feel powerless to increase my ...

A smaller percentage of Massachusetts schools made significant progress towards, met, or exceeded their own goals in 2025, ...

Want to help your 12th-grader in English Language Arts? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom. Read closely from rich and challenging 11th grade level texts, with ...

I first began writing for The Chronicle in the fall of 1999, in a series describing my search for a tenure-track job. Back then, readers sent me actual, physical letters, although it wasn’t long ...

When I began teaching, I adopted the common practice of grading student participation. I set aside 10 percent of my students’ grades for that purpose, and did my best to keep track of how much they ...

Hundreds of Jefferson Parish students will be taught honors math and English by virtual teachers this school year.

Faculty must report academic participation when assigning an “F” grade. Faculty will select from three failure options that show how a student participated in class(es). Students receiving a failing ...

New police officers in Scotland are being given English classes to improve their reading and writing amid concerns about the standard of recruits. The classes for probationary officers include ...

Jesse Stommel compiles two decades of eyebrow-raising in Undoing the Grade: Why We Grade, and How to Stop It was the summer of 2023, sometime in June or July, and Jesse Stommel (PhD, English ‘10) had ...

Most students have denied any wrongdoing. But while Texas A&M University-Commerce says no one was barred from graduating, students say they have not received their diplomas. In a startling example of ...

With the 2024 NFL campaign fully in the rearview, it's officially draft season! Yep, mock madness is upon us. But before we completely shift focus to the next class of rookies, let's close the book on ...

Want to help your third-grader master the basics of reading and writing? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom. Use what a sentence says to figure out the meaning of ...