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A University of Oregon study says alcohol consumption and celebrating increased and studying decreased when a team fared well, resulting in lower grade-point averages.

As governor of Texas, Rick Perry has pursued a controversial agenda that would gut Texas' vaunted public university system in favor of something that more closely resembles a business.

Teachers spent nights huddled in a back room, erasing wrong answers on students' test sheets and filling in the correct bubbles. At another school, struggling students were seated next to higher-performing classmates so they could copy answers....

Students who are night owls have worse grades in high school and the beginning years of college, research has shown.

A Tampa mother is defending her decision to stick her teenage son on a street corner with a sign that says, among other things, "GPA 1.22 ... honk if I need education."...

If a computer can win at Jeopardy, can one grade the essays of freshmen?

Edison Senior High math teacher Marelis Bombale, standing, discusses a 'central tendency measurements' lesson with freshman Alix Volcy, right, on Saturday, Dec. 5. Also in foreground are sophomores Sargine Pierre-Louis, left; and Darold Jean, center.

Depending on whom you ask, West Potomac High School's latest change to student grading is either another sign of a coddled generation or a necessary step to help struggling kids.

When Duke University's Cathy Davidson announced her grading plan for a seminar she would be offering this semester, she attracted ...

Lisa Foderaro writes in The Times’s Metropolitan section that efforts by Princeton University to curb grade inflation are “now running into fierce resistance from the school’s Type-A-plus student body.”