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 ...

To offer students extra credit—that is the question. In fact, it’s an age-old question, one that some systems, liked ...

I was a kid who thrived on the positive reinforcement of being an “A” student; to this day, I can count on my hands the number of “bad grades” I received during my K-12 education. There was the “D” on ...