IN one of my speaking engagements, I was asked this question by a faculty member: “How do you balance between compassion and the level of objectivity and fairness in grading students? According to the ...

As a local educator, I see the same pattern every year: students with impressive GPAs walk into my classroom confident, capable and ready to work, at least on paper. But when it comes time to read ...

Edgar Rosales Jr. sits in the car where he lived for more than a year as a participant in the Safe Parking Program at Long Beach City College in Long Beach, Calif. There, he said, “you don’t have to ...

TIRUCHY: Opened a year ago, the Tiruchy Corporation’s multi-level parking facility on West Boulevard Road had a basic flaw --motorists had no way of knowing whether its 450 car and 800 two-wheeler ...

The city schools chancellor is calling for an investigation of a software company after data of 820,000 students was hacked in January. Chancellor David Banks blamed software company Illuminate ...

A psychology essay, written by a student called Samantha Fulnecky at The University of Oklahoma (OU), has prompted an online culture war. Fulnecky received a mark of 0 on her paper, which repeatedly ...

VIJAYAWADA: In a major step forward for India’s edtech and engineering education landscape, byteXL has announced a strategic partnership with HackerRank, the global leader in technical assessments and ...

Most of the grading methods and practices referred to as “alternative” today fall under the umbrella term “ungrading.” Ungrading is the practice of wholly removing grades from all formative and ...

Alexander Slagg is a freelance writer specializing in technology and education. He is an ongoing contributor to the CDW family of magazines. As students settle back into classroom routines for the ...