Asking a low-performing student to repeat a grade is a big step and one often challenged by students and families. But requiring younger students to take the extra time to master material may boost ...

Our education system has this funny quirk of grouping kids by birth date — rather than, say, intellectual ability or achievement or interest. But developmental pathways are as individual as kids ...

In the last 50 years, grade inflation has been prevalent in both public and private institutions of higher education. But private schools have far outpaced public schools, according to a new study. In ...

Studying in a Philippine public school has its pros and cons. While some of the best students were products of the free public education system, it could not be denied that private ones also have ...

The disquieting side effect of our increasingly detailed longitudinal studies of students is we keep finding warning signs of a future graduation derailment earlier and earlier in a child’s school ...

A new report by Ros Clayton from Stellenbosch University’s Research on Socio-Economic Policy (RESEP) Group, examines the impact and outcomes of having children repeat the Grade 1 and Grade 4 ...