Professors will be asked to relax deadlines, attendance policies and grading standards to help low-income, minority and first-generation students at University of Nebraska Kearney.

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

Humanities would get more respect -- and graduates would earn more -- if professors made classes harder.

While nearly all private high schools require summer reading, most public schools do not. Some ask students to listen to music or watch a movie.

Teachers aren't prepared for middle schoolers who can't read very well.

Lowering the definition of "proficient" reading would end the "reading crisis," writes education professor. But one-third of students are very poor readers.

To offer a demanding, powerful curriculum to every child is not elitist. It is egalitarian.

Passing students who don't show up regularly or do the work is "just crazy," says an "A" students -- and many of her teachers in Chicago.

College students want fulfilling, flexible jobs with no deadlines and plenty of "self-care days."

Passing special-ed students along with high grades and a diploma -- but no effective instruction --doesn't do them any favors.

A majority of black, Hispanic and low-income fourth-graders have "below basic" reading skills. Does it matter?

Achievement is falling, and gaps are widening, for American students and adults since well before the pandemic.

Britain's Labour Party plans to make science teaching less Western-centric and relax standards so lessons are more "enjoyable."

A deaf student with 3rd-4th-grade reading and math skills was given high grades and a diploma, ending special-ed services.

"We're in the midst of an "education depression," an "era of shrinking outcomes and opportunity," writes Tim Daly. From 1990 to 2013,...

Chicago teachers say they were told to pass all migrant students, regardless of their academic skills.

Overwhelmed by the number of students with different needs, teachers tend to lower expectations, writes veteran teacher.

Special education numbers are up.

Wisconsin is lowering expectations for students.

Many college students don't do the work -- perhaps because they have trouble reading and understanding college-level texts.