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 ...

Students are worried about what a cap on top grades will mean for their GPAs and postcollege prospects. Faculty largely view ...

President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 discussed topics including grade inflation, rising public mistrust of higher ...

Grade inflation offers short-term gains, but poorer future test scores, lower graduation rates, and lower annual earnings, a ...

The Nov. 30 Plain Dealer contained two intriguing articles that, while in separate parts of the paper, were certainly connected. Michael J. Coren’s “The case for letting kids out of our sight” and ...

An analysis from the University’s Office of Institutional Research and Analytics shows a steady increase in undergraduate ...

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 ...

Across the country, universities are using this and other alternative grading models that guarantee high marks based on some standard other than merit. Alternative grading schemes like these—often ...

A detailed report released yesterday by a faculty committee studying grade inflation shows that students across the board now receive far better grades than they did 24 years ago. The report goes on ...

Harvard University is proposing to limit the number of top grades awarded to undergraduate students, responding to concerns that grade inflation may weaken the meaning of a degree from the school. The ...

"Who could ever have imagined that we would reach a point where a student with a straight B average would rank 923 out of a graduating class of 1079 — or where a student with a straight C average ...