And the test that matters (both for state accountability purposes and for the federal evaluation) is one that’s focused only on grade-level content. Even though it might make pedagogical sense ...

Can Software Make the Grade? A computer program, SAGrader, rated these exam answers from students in an introductory sociology course at the University of Missouri at Columbia. The students were ...

This week USP won another plaudit, becoming the only Latin American university to make it into the world's top 200 universities in another much-watched list, published by Times Higher Education ...

Downgrading Enron debt below investment grade activated a series of "triggers" requiring the company to make cash payments to holders of its debt. In addition, the ratings trigger required Enron ...

Scassellati recalls one first-grade boy who worked on English language ... There are other reasons not to make the robots too engaging. Huang likens the dilemma to concerns about excessive screen ...

If all do not appear, select the more link under your visible courses. Q: What if I make a mistake or need to change a student’s final grade after I have submitted it? A: Grades can be resubmitted ...

Economist Tim Harford has proposed an alternative solution: make grade inflation more like price inflation by uncapping the highest grade. In other words, grade inflation would be less of a ...