I’ve always been obsessed with achieving straight A’s on my report card. The school I attended from preschool through sixth grade pushed me to think that as long as you get an A, you can be happy, ...

Prasad is a fourth-year medical student and public policy graduate student in Austin, Texas. A “quiet but consequential erosion of standards” is how a Republican Texas state senator described ...

ATLANTA — The University System of Georgia is now definitively saying a pass/fail grading system will NOT be used for the spring 2020 semester. This comes after an outcry from students who were ...

If you’ve talked to an engineering nerd or a tech bro recently, you’ve probably heard the phrase “fail fast, fail often” a lot. The idea is simple: Value trying and learning from failure rather than ...

When you build and operate in high-stakes, chaotic environments, you have to plan for failure. The Stoics had a name for thinking ahead about this: premeditatio malorum—the deliberate contemplation of ...