The NASA and SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station has been delayed twice due to poor weather. High offshore winds in the flight path prompted the latest delay, with the launch now ...

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MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Education will review its policies that inadvertently move students up a grade level despite their poor performance, Education Secretary Sonny Angara said ...

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 ...

The International Space Station has been understaffed for weeks after four Crew-11 astronauts returned to Earth early when one of them experienced a medical issue. NASA hopes to move up the launch of ...

Since pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses began waning, culture warriors have been casting about for a new controversy in elite higher education. Last October, Harvard handed them one. Amanda ...

The 12 days of Christmas begin on Christmas Day, December 25, and end on January 6. This period leads up to the Epiphany, which celebrates the manifestation of Jesus to the world. The tradition of ...

The one form of inflation that can’t be blamed on Joe Biden is grade inflation. Evidence of this practice is the preponderance of A’s in student grades at Harvard and other formerly elite universities ...

Harvard is worried about going soft. Specifically, about grade inflation, the name for giving ever higher marks to ever more students. According to an “Update on Grading and Workload” from the ...

Reston, VA - September 10, 2025 - The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) today responded to the newly released NAEP Grade 12 mathematics results with an urgent call for systemic action ...

Harvard economist Roland Fryer discovered something remarkable while studying the Harlem Children's Zone. They had eliminated the racial achievement gap in math and cut it by a third in reading. But ...