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As bad as the pandemic was for student learning, if some current education fads continue, the future could be worse. By now, almost everyone has seen reports about pandemic learning loss. A study ...

Rarely have I received reaction to a column as vigorous — and as negative — as the flood of emails from teachers appalled by my opposition to a plan in Arlington, Va., to strike down traditional ...

Grading homework assignments for a large class can be a time-consuming chore, and overworked teaching assistants often have little time to give students detailed feedback. But help may be on the way: ...

Las Vegas high-school English teacher Laura Jeanne Penrod initially thought the grading changes at her school district made sense. Under the overhaul, students are given more chances to prove they ...

The value of homework is suddenly under the microscope, and leaders of the Lafayette Parish school district have decided it should no longer be graded. School districts around the state also are ...

Along the bumpy return to normalcy in our pandemic-battered schools, I see an interesting movement to ease grading and homework requirements. Many educators have been promoting such changes for years, ...

At the beginning of the school year, some Baltimore County students came home convinced that homework no longer meant anything, as the public school system introduced changes to grading policy on a ...