The Caledonian-Record

A Maine educator didn’t have a curriculum to teach a foundational reading skill. So she created one

A Maine school district is testing a new reading curriculum that teaches kids to break words into sounds and blend them back together. The Sounds of Success program was created ...
The Register-Herald

Young kids missed the pandemic's school disruptions. Their reading scores are still behind

Young students are still struggling to bounce back academically from the pandemic, even though many were babies at the time. In new data from research and testing company NWEA, first ...

AI will score kids’ essays on N.J.’s new state exams. Some teachers say that’s risky.

An AI system will score essays and written answers on the new NJSLA exams given across New Jersey, but the state's largest teachers union has concerns.

A space dog named Doge and a stolen cookie mystery: How Moravian students are nurturing Bethlehem third graders’ creativity

Moravian University and William Penn Elementary students are collaborating on a puppet-driven storytelling project.
Standard-Journal

Carnegie Learning Awarded Federal EIR Expansion Grant to Advance Adolescent Literacy through Lenses on Literature

It is rare for EIR grants to fund randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of a full core ELA curriculum at this scale, a distinction that reflects Carnegie Learning’s commitment to validating its ...
The Globe and Mail

Researchers urge early screening for math struggles in Ontario

Anna Stokke, a math podcaster and professor at the University of Winnipeg, likes to say that math is “relentlessly hierarchical.” Students who want to pursue jobs in finance, technology and economics ...
Sacramento State University

Grade Appeals Guide

DEADLINE for Appealing Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 Grades 1 is: 5 p.m. on Friday, February 20, 2026 - applications must be submitted to Academic Affairs, Sacramento Hall, Room 230, or emailed to ...
Forbes

Harvard University Proposes A 20% Cap On A’s To Fight Grade Inflation

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Harvard University is considering a 20% cap on the number of A grades that can be assigned ...
The New York Times

Harvard Proposes Capping A’s to Curb Grade Inflation

A recent report found that a majority of grades given out at Harvard were A’s. Professors will vote on a proposal to limit the number to around 20 percent. By Mark Arsenault Harvard undergraduates ...
The Harvard Crimson

UT Researcher Warns Grade Inflation Hurts Students’ Long-Term Academic and Career Outcomes

University of Texas associate professor Jeffrey T. Denning argued that grade inflation in K-12 schools and colleges may boost short-term outcomes but undermine students’ long-term academic and career ...
The Hill

Grading is hard — and grade-inflation makes it worthless

Harvard reports — perhaps better to say it admits — that over 60 percent of its students received A’s. This has set off a new round of hand-wringing about grade inflation. The first round I remember ...