There is a longstanding debate about whether traditional grading—letter grades based on a student’s content knowledge, classroom behavior, and extra credit—appropriately measures student success.

A student of mine—let’s call her Emily—asked me that question at the end of one class last year. We had recently finished a test on factoring, which she had been struggling with. When I handed back ...

A team of researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, San Diego have discovered positive uses for AI and extra credit assignments to help improve ...

As an educator, I’m continuously searching for ways to give my students a leg up. When I discovered Modern States, a philanthropic organization offering free online courses that give any student the ...

When students ask me if there are “extra credit” opportunities in any of my classes, the answer is always “no.” This makes it easy for me to answer such questions - and students rarely ask me this ...