Grades

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Male school inspectors are more likely to award higher Ofsted grades than female inspectors when inspecting similar primary schools, according to new research by UCL and the University of Southampton. Released today as an academic working paper, the study examines the Ofsted grades awarded by…

A 1936 HOLC “residential security” map of Philadelphia, classifying various neighborhoods by estimated riskiness of mortgage loan. Credit: Wikipedia Research from Washington University in St. Louis exposes the deadly legacy of redlining, the 1930s-era New Deal practice that graded neighborhoods by financial risk and solidified the notion that an area's property value was proportional to its racial composition.…

UCLA junior Sania Tuli is worried that she’s missing material she’ll need when she takes her medical college admission exam next year. UC Riverside senior Nathalie Boutros fears she is falling behind in a class required to graduate because she hasn’t been able to find help during the massive strike of 48,000 University of California academic workers. And professor Dylan Rodriguez has stopped teaching his UC Riverside class to support strikers. But his UC Berkeley colleague Kristie Boering has made the opposite decision to…

The researchers demonstrated that the bias was systemic and could have long-term consequences.The study found that girls were often given better grades than boys, even if they had the same academic competency. According to a recent study of tens of thousands of students and their teachers, girls are often awarded more favorable grades than males with the same academic abilities.This prejudice against boys may spell the difference between passing and failing classes like math. The Italian researchers caution that it may…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Assessments of children as early as age three and five are powerful predictors of who will go on to fail to secure good GCSE results in English language and math, a major study has revealed. Just under a half (48%) of teenagers who fail to secure standard passes in these core subjects were identified as falling behind by teachers at age 5.…

Credit: Shutterstock This week, one Sydney high school made headlines for banning mobile phones during school hours. Phones can come to school but must stay in locked pouches allowing teachers to "focus on educating students." …

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain No clear relationship exists between GCSE test anxiety and exam performance among Year 11 pupils, a UCL study has found. Published today in the…

Moneybagg Yo’s photographer is being rewarded for earning his college diploma.The Memphis rapper took to Instagram on Thursday to congratulate his cameraman Matt DiMarino for graduating college, revealing that he’s compensating the graduate for earning good grades.“Told my cameraman @mattdedits every A u get is $250 and every B is $100 til he graduate,” Moneybagg captioned a picture of his photographer donning a cap and gown. “He been bussin me up every other week, $1500 bonuses. Congrats bro proud of U.”DiMarino shared…