It's an unpleasant feeling for us, but is failure necessary for success? A world champion athlete and Duke professor explain why they say yes.

Esther Hoffman was hanging out in a borrowed minivan in the Navy Exchange parking lot on Santo Road on Thursday morning, just hours after a small plane crashed into her military housing community of ...

Wisdom says that democracy works only by adapting certain inequalities of excellence to qualify its main principle of equality. To expose them, professors have to grade sensibly.

We continue to have grave concerns over whether our kids are learning the basics before being shuffled along to the next grade.

More than half of the grades handed out at Harvard College are A’s, an increase from decades past even as school officials have sounded the alarm for years about rampant grade inflation. About 60% of ...

This might be literally the most unsurprising thing you read all week. Dogs love treats. It's like a proven science or something. And dogs will do some ridiculous and extreme things for treats—even ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

ABILENE, Texas — A teacher initially placed on leave over a book controversy has been charged with trying to have sexual contact with three students, allegedly even asking one girl what she would do ...