This spring semester, the Middlebury Economics department instituted a department-wide threshold of 95% for an A-grade. The ...

A Harvard faculty committee has recommended capping the number of A grades that can be assigned in undergraduate classes to 20%, plus up to four additional A’s per class.

For more than three decades, grades in American schools and colleges have been going up, up, up. A’s are more common. Failure is rarer than it once was. At the same time, student achievement, as ...

On Dec. 2nd, Princeton released its report on undergraduate grade inflation. Our opinion writers share their takes on grade inflation at Princeton.

Problems of collective action must be addressed collectively. That means that any solution to grade inflation on campus must ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. University of Minnesota students leave Pioneer Hall in November 2022. (Max Nesterak/Minnesota Reformer) Grade inflation has long ...

A decade ago, an esteemed professor delivered a lecture upon receiving a university award for a “significant contribution to the learning environment.” After the lecture, he took questions from the ...

This might sound impossibly old-fashioned, but I still like the idea that education is about learning: facts, skills, concepts, research, culture, analysis, inspiration. It’s supposed to enrich our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Harvard reports — perhaps better to say it admits — that over 60 percent of its students received A’s. This has set off a new ...

More than a quarter of middle and high schools in the Tucson area's largest districts are awarding passing grades students may not be earning, an Arizona Daily Star investigation found. The 10-month ...

A faculty committee at Harvard released recommendations on how to tame grade inflation at the Ivy League school.

This might sound impossibly old-fashioned, but I still like the idea that education is about learning: facts, skills, concepts, research, culture, analysis, inspiration. It’s supposed to enrich our ...