The Brainerd Dispatch and Pineandlakes Echo Journal asked second graders from across the Brainerd lakes area to write Letters to Santa this holiday season. We hope you enjoy them as much as we have!

We all grew up hoping for As and Bs over Cs and Ds, but is the letter grading system outdated? An education scholar argues as ...

Grades have been shown to cultivate a fear of failure among students, at all ages, and inhibit them from taking intellectual ...

Another method is called collaborative grading, or ungrading, where students don’t get grades throughout the semester. Instead, they get feedback from their teachers and complete self-assessments. At ...

A proposed revision of the state’s math standards would dump existing upper-level requirements and replace them with a menu ...

For 30 minutes each day, Mikayla Blalock’s fourth grade students at Samuel E. Hubbard Elementary School in Monroe County focus on what some consider a lost art in the digital age: cursive writing.

Harvard is worried about going soft. Specifically, about grade inflation, the name for giving ever higher marks to ever more students. According to an “Update on Grading and Workload” from the ...

Chicago Public Schools students struggle in reading and math as just 2-in-5 read at grade level and about 1-in-4 do math proficiently. And that’s after Illinois lowered proficiency standards to make ...

People leading the drafting of EU standards for high-risk AI systems which are regulated under the bloc’s AI Act have warned against fast-tracking the process – saying procedure changes will have ...

The Assembly Commission has selected a new watchdog to oversee MLAs’ conduct little over a month after the previous candidate quit a week into the role. Former PSNI chief superintendent Stephen Wright ...

2nd STREET, a Japanese secondhand apparel retailer, opened its newest location in Harvard Square on June 20, selling everything from vintage sports jerseys to Diesel denim and Michael Kors handbags.

What do the U.S. Constitution, birthday cards and your signature have in common? They’re (likely) all in cursive. However, becoming fluent in this form of penmanship, once the hallmark of a good ...