Some 1,200 middle school and high school students competed in the 2026 Orange County Regional Science Olympiad this weekend, hosted at UC Irvine.

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Matt Gewolb, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Institutional Strategy for New York Law School. Courtesy photo Law schools can and should serve as engines of social and economic mobility ...

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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.

Editor’s note: This article is part of Teaching the Adult Learner: Practical Strategies for Higher Ed Success, a six-part series exploring how colleges can better support nontraditional students.

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Calculus is historically a gatekeeper course for science, engineering, technology and math fields: if a student fails calculus, it’s do-not-pass go. Even non-STEM majors who enroll in calculus face ...