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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A teacher sparked backlash from parents by offering students extra credit if they didn’t use a bathroom pass (Getty Images) A ...

This math teacher’s pee policy doesn’t add up. A California educator has been accused of cruelty after awarding bonus points to students who don’t take a bathroom break during class. A peeved parent ...

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 correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article. Hrihaan Bhutani is already thinking about college. The Dublin Unified freshman is taking four Advanced ...

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 ...