Healthline

What Causes a Persistent Low-Grade Fever and How Is It Treated?

Long-lasting low-grade fevers can occur for many reasons. Things like viral or bacterial infections, stress, medications, health conditions, like thyroid issues or autoimmune diseases, and many other ...
New Republic

I Know Why College Grades Are Going Up. It’s Definitely Not Wokeism.

Public confidence in higher education is at an all-time low, with significant drops in approval ratings in recent years among both Democrats and Republicans. Across the country, college professors and ...
The Harvard Crimson

Grade Inflation: What Goes Up Must Come Down

Aden Barton ’24, an Editorial editor, is an Economics concentrator in Eliot House. His column “Harvard in Numbers” appears on alternate Mondays. Here’s a quotation from one of Harvard’s many ...
The New York Times

Margaret Grade, Whose California Inn Was Beloved by Stars, Dies at 72

Her Manka’s Inverness Lodge drew actors and writers who dined at Ms. Grade’s farm-to-table restaurant and reveled in her eccentric flair. By Kim Severson Margaret Grade, a California neuropsychologist ...
Inside Higher Ed

Second Chances for Failing Students

Students are more likely to enroll in science, technology, engineering and mathematics courses and graduate with a STEM degree when grade-forgiveness policies are in place, according to a recent study ...
PBS

Grade levels could be a thing of the past in schools focused on competency

In a suburb just outside of Denver, Principal Sarah Gould stands outside a fifth-grade classroom at Hodgkins Elementary School watching students work. This classroom, she explains, is for students ...
Los Angeles Times

Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the old way of grading

A few years ago, high school teacher Joshua Moreno got fed up with his grading system, which had become a points game. Some students accumulated so many points early on that by the end of the term ...
Education Week

Third Grade Reading Retention Is Back. Should It Be?

At some point over the past few pandemic years, many states pressed pause on one particular high-stakes, controversial piece of education policy: 3rd grade retention. But now, it’s back. The laws ...
PBS

Column: How an epidemic of grade inflation made A's average

Grade inflation — no, hyperinflation — is running rampant in American higher education. At Yale, where I have been both a student and an instructor, the average GPA has risen considerably over the ...
Purdue University

Grade Questions and Answers

Q: Who is allowed to submit or enter final grades? A: Final grades must be entered or submitted online via myPurdue Faculty Self Service or BrightSpace by the instructor of record for that course. Q: ...
The Hechinger Report

What’s school without grade levels?

HUNTER, N.D. — On windswept fields outside Fargo, North Dakota, a bold experiment in education has begun. In a lone building flanked by farmland, the Northern Cass School District is heading into year ...