A University of California-Berkeley graduate student offered extra credit to students if they attended a student "walkout" in support of Gaza, according to a screenshot posted to social media, leading ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 teaching assistant at the University of California, Berkeley, offered her students extra credit for attending a pro-Palestinian walkout amid the ongoing Hamas-Israel war before administrators nixed ...

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 ...