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 ...
Medical schools and institutions are now among the zealous champions of progressive ideology. Within days of George Floyd’s death in May 2020, the Association of American Medical Colleges demanded ...
Two states are considering bills that would require medical schools to use A-F grading systems instead of pass-fail. Indiana and Texas are considering SB 289 and HB 5294, respectively, both of which ...
Officials at the Minneapolis-based University of Minnesota Medical School may change the school’s grading scale to a pass/fail system for first- and second-year students, according to the Minnesota ...
Why are Indiana lawmakers trying to dismantle pass-fail grading systems? As the largest medical school in the U.S., Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM) utilizes a pass-fail grading system, ...
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, ...
While Cornell has extended the deadline for students to choose between letter grades and pass/fail to April 21, a growing number of students are advocating for a more radical approach: a mandatory, ...
While Cornell undergraduates await the beginning of their online classes in April, Cornell Law students already resumed their semester on Monday with a mandatory pass/fail grading system. According to ...