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.

Anyone who's attended a public high school in the US has experienced all sorts of teachers with different sets of class rules. Sometimes, you had assigned seats; sometimes, you could sit wherever you ...

A student of mine—let’s call her Emily—asked me that question at the end of one class last year. We had recently finished a test on factoring, which she had been struggling with. When I handed back ...

A mother’s post about a California teacher went viral after revealing that her child told her she could get extra credit for not asking to use the bathroom. RELATED STORIES: Boy’s Former Preschool ...

Imagine that you are a student at Boston College and you see that a philosophy professor is offering a yearlong course on great books. Maybe you are an intellectual type of student who loves to read ...