In the late 18th century, Yale president, Ezra Stiles, formalized a grading scale to measure a student’s aptitude for a subject, using the descriptors Optimi, Second Optimi, Inferiores, and Perjores….
For most of IMSA’s history, sex education has been largely ignored. Res Life programming carried the bulk of the responsibility for educating students about sexual health and safety, but what…
Hybrid learning has become a common tool for mitigating the spread of COVID-19 in educational institutions. By the end of 2020, 46% of students’ education moved entirely online due to…
On April 14th, 2021, Dr. Comfort Akwaji-Anderson and Dr. Jeanette Bartley presented a new policy on Mastery-based learning to the Board of Trustees on behalf of IMSA’s administration. Under this…
Although 1.17 million Illinois school children had the option to go in-person for school in the 2020-2021 school year, many other schools still only offered remote learning. In January, however,…
On May 16th, the College Board announced its plans to introduce a new score to be reported on SAT score reports – an Overall Disadvantage Level score, which has been…