Tag: GPA

Police in Nevada have arrested a 19-year-old college student, accusing him of hacking into his high school's computer system and inflating students' grades in exchange for money. The suspect, Tyler Coyner, allegedly obtained the password to Pahrump Valley High School's network, giving him the ability to change students' grades. Coyner, who is currently enrolled as a student at the University of ...

Share If your college GPA has been plummeting in recent semesters, you might legitimately blame the slide on drugs, sex or the occasional rock and roll. You best think twice, though, before fingering Facebook. According to researchers from Northwestern University, compulsive use of social networking sites has virtually no effect on academic performance when compared with other variables like ...

Of all the things one can do during class to help improve test scores, surfing the Web certainly isn't one of them. Seems obvious to us, but it took a teacher from the University of Colorado at Boulder to single it out before her group of students wised up. Once they did, their test scores improved. Diane Sieber, an associate professor, picked out the 17 students in her classes who were using ...