Grading students based on effort rather than achievement is spreading from P.E. class to academic classes in high schools, but...

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New York Times columnist Frank Bruni has good advice on how to get the most out of college. Hanging with people from the same background...

“After Katrina’s devastation, New Orleans embarked on the the most ambitious education overhaul in modern America,” writes David...

Students on the autism spectrum may do well in high school, but fail in college, writes Brendan Borrell on Spectrum. Some colleges now...

Last week, California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would have “codified the Obama-era Education Department’s guidance for how...

I’ve signed up to mentor an 11th grader — for the next three years — via iMentor, which is looking for mentors in San Jose, Oakland,...

Grammar is “racist,” proclaims the writing center at the University of Washington, Tacoma. In fact, everything’s racist. Language...

College should be where things “get more complicated, not less,” writes Lyell Asher, a Lewis & Clark English professor, in The American...