Authorities say an Alabama man charged with murder this weekend beat his mother to death following an argument about his college grades, CNN reports.

A high school student who got an F in chemistry after she was accused of cheating on a test is suing the school district in an effort to reverse the punishment.

A new study released this week purports to show that more attractive high-school students tend to make better grades. As if high school weren't hard enough.

Harvard: where the men play croquet, the women wear pearls, and everyone has an A average. Or A-, if we're being specific.

Because the New York restaurant grading system is "inconsistent, capricious, and costly," the City Council proposed new bills that will reduce fines, grade on fewer violations, and increase opportunities for restaurants to contest their rating. Gold stars for showing up! Stickers for a positive attitude!

In my day, college grades were evenly distributed on a "curve," which was determined by...well who knows, we were all so blunted back then. The point is, you can now safely accuse kids these days of getting everything for free.

Homework is only the worst idea ever. Who was the first jerk who was like, "Hey, got a great idea here, after we made you sit in school all day let's send more school work home with you, so as to infest your every waking hour with dread and help you develop a lifelong loathing of formal education?" I mean come on. Kids hate doing homework. Teachers hate grading homework. Now, students in LA are more or less free to never do homework again.

A new study—which will doubtlessly be oversimplified and distorted by liberal blogs like us in order to demonize those whose political beliefs we find repulsive—has found that Democratic professors grade like this ("I am a laid-back hippie"), while Republican professors grade like this ("All the black students fail!").

In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of JFK's inauguration, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library is digitizing reams of JFK artifacts. Among them: The president's application to Harvard, including mediocre test scores and a refreshingly banal personal essay.