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.

Students and faculty have differing views on extra-credit opportunities, but whether or not teachers put extra-credit assignments on the grade bargaining table for their students is a matter of ...

Last week, when I returned the latest batch of assignments in a short story class, the inevitable happened. A student approached me and asked, “Can I do extra credit?” This request flummoxes me more ...

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 ...

A parent who has a child at a Clarkstown middle school says an extra credit assignment tried to sway students’ political beliefs. The four-page extra credit assignment was given to a sixth grade ...