High School GPA is a better predictor of college success than ACT/SAT scores, finds a new study comparing admission criteria ...
Stanford University says 38% of its students are disabled. Is it a sign of an accommodating campus, or students gaming the ...
The school district is analyzing student learning gains after two years of using the FAST testing model. Students take three exams throughout the year to monitor progress and identify areas needing ...
“I think, therefore I am,” philosopher René Descartes famously said in 1637. To think means to be alive. Learning how to think is why students go to to school. As a high school student and high school ...
Hate speech coordinated by a small group of Redwood ASB students has prompted Visalia Unified School District officials to take action. The response comes as Redwood students prepared to walk off ...
At some point over the past 15 years, kids stopped reading. Or at least their teachers stopped asking them to read the way they once did. We live in the age of the reel, the story, the sample, the ...
Everyone knows it’s hard to get college students to do the reading—remember books? But the attention-span crisis is not limited to the written word. Professors are now finding that they can’t even get ...
Student loan borrowers in default are saved from wage garnishments -- for now. The Department of Education said it's pausing plans to garnish wages and other income like tax refunds of student loan ...
The Trump administration’s barely-alive Consumer Financial Protection Bureau published a heavily edited 20-page report on the state of student loans, after cutting nearly half of the original document ...
As the regular application deadlines approach this month, getting into college is top of mind for many high school seniors. But students assume that if a college admits them, it means the school has ...
A large urban district in Florida saw an increase in student test scores. A smaller school district in rural California is experiencing a dramatic decline in student behavioral problems. The reason ...
When I first read about the Samantha Fulnecky and Mel Curth debacle that captivated the nation last week, I thought: "Well that's the most creative grade negotiation I've ever seen." Though ...