For Donna Shelton, the answer is: almost never. "OK, I just made an exception on a flight from Houston to Chicago," says Shelton, a banker from Chicago. "I brought home a stray cat I had rescued while ...

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.

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. I don’t offer students extra credit. I say that in the syllabus and in my online course orientation ...

A parent who has a child at a Clarkstown middle school says an extra credit assignment tried to sway students’ political beliefs. The four-page extra credit assignment was given to a sixth grade ...

Hobbled by ongoing challenges in recruiting and retaining bus drivers, school officials last week agreed to boost compensation for so-called “extra assignment work” — field trips, away games for local ...