Failing a student is nearly impossible, say Philadelphia teachers. Principals discourage or ban F's and change grades.

Diego's A's got him into test-blind Berkeley, where he's likely to fail Calculus and give up on an engineering major.

Refusing to measure college readiness ensures the reckoning will come later, at the student's expense.

Students who are passed along with wobbly math skills will pay the price in college.

If you care about equity, you've got to support standardized tests.

Why did an eighth-grader who can't read -- she doesn't know what sounds letters make -- get a "C" in English?

What's a diploma worth in Massachusetts? Without a state test requirement, graduation rates -- but not test scores -- are way up in Boston.

When schools expect less, students do less and learn less. Try-hard students are even rarer.

Dual enrollment helps Texas students do well after graduation, but taking college-prep classes has no benefit, says a new study.

Inflating grades and dumbing-down tests is giving high achievers no way to show their competence.

Harvard's faculty is considering putting a 20 percent cap on A grades.

Students who receive good grades for mediocre work tend to learn and earn less in the long run.

So many Harvard students earn A's they university may add an A+ grade to signify excellence.

Relying on AI to do the math for you is "a recipe for idiocracy."

A third of high school graduates (or less) are ready for college math and reading, but a majority will enroll in four-year colleges.

Harvard students are distressed by the prospect of tougher grading standards.

Teachers don't like grading "reforms" that lower expectations.

The SAT, and soon the ACT, are changing to cater to students with short attention spans.

College students don't spend much time studying or working for pay, but expect high grades for little effort.

The University of Austin will guarantee admissions to students with very high test scores.