Category: Proof Points
Parents trust report cards more than test scores — with consequences for kids
Most parents want to help their children succeed. We check report cards, ask about homework and try to help our […]
February 23, 2026
When school size matters and when it doesn’t
For two decades, New York City’s small high schools stood out as one of the nation’s most ambitious — and […]
February 16, 2026
Easy A’s, lower pay: Grade inflation’s hidden damage
For more than three decades, grades in American schools and colleges have been going up, up, up. A’s are more […]
February 9, 2026
When the Spanish flu upended universities, students paid the price
In the fall of 1918, Edward Kidder Graham, the president of the University of North Carolina, tried to reassure anxious […]
February 2, 2026
Young, employed — and unhappy
For decades, economists could rely on a comforting graph about happiness over a lifetime: It followed a U-shape, like a […]
January 26, 2026