Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Why are Indiana lawmakers trying to dismantle pass-fail grading systems? As the largest medical school in the U.S., Indiana ...

When you build and operate in high-stakes, chaotic environments, you have to plan for failure. The Stoics had a name for thinking ahead about this: premeditatio malorum—the deliberate contemplation of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The heating and cooling system inside a home quietly controls comfort every single day, yet many households give it attention only after disaster strikes. A furnace stops on a bitter winter night, or ...

When temperatures plunge, the system most likely to fail is the one you notice only when it stops working: the network of pipes, heating equipment, and controls that keep your home warm and supplied ...