Failure Grades Math 
eSchool News
JUNE 26, 2025
Research shows that productive struggle in math leads to better learning. Without appropriate support, students may disengage, lose confidence, and eventually decide they’re “just not a math person.” That’s the experience we want to create in math classrooms. But there’s a fine line between productive and unproductive struggle.
Edsurge
JULY 9, 2025
In grade school, I was a confident student who knew how to ace tests and please my teachers. My practical immigrant parents talked me out of the first, and a terrible grade on a chemistry midterm out of the second. I personally never faced a weighty decision about my learning until I had to declare a college major.
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Teach Hub
JUNE 27, 2025
Embrace Failure as a Learning Opportunity There’s a saying that goes, “If you never fail, you’ll never succeed”. When you scroll through social media, you’ll see perfect grades, perfect families, perfect everything. We need to remind them that failing doesn’t mean you’re a failure. That’s where growth really begins.
Cult of Pedagogy
MAY 11, 2025
The pressure students feel to get high grades and the pressure for teachers to give them are both real. In classrooms where teachers emphasize performance goals (errorless performance on tasks, points, and grades), students are more likely to cheat. Or a policy might say failure to properly cite sources is plagiarism.
eSchool News
DECEMBER 20, 2024
It was clear that a new approach to literacy instruction was needed–one that leveraged every teacher in our building and gave us ways to catch our older students up on second grade skills without infantilizing the content. All I remembered was trying not to sound like an idiot and feeling like a failure.
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
As novice sixth grade math and English teachers, weve learned to approach our mid-year benchmark assessments not as final judgments but as tools for reflection and growth. This perspective transforms data analysis into an empowering process; data is a tool for improvement amongst our students rather than a measure of failure.
eSchool News
JUNE 17, 2024
It was clear that a new approach to literacy instruction was needed–one that leveraged every teacher in our building and gave us ways to catch our older students up on second grade skills without infantilizing the content. All I remembered was trying not to sound like an idiot and feeling like a failure.
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