Harvard cuts A grades by nearly 7 percentage points as university tackles widespread grade inflation crisis affecting student ...

Good grading starts long before a class ends.

Grade inflation is the predictable result of how American universities now organize teaching, labor, and money.

Harvard University students received fewer As in their fall semester classes following concerns about academic rigor and ...

Nearly a third of university students are awarded first-class honours degrees, figures show. Concerns have been raised that the prestige of the country’s leading universities could be undermined after ...

Harvard faculty awarded significantly fewer A grades in the fall, cutting the share of top marks by nearly seven percentage ...

As attempts to recenter academics at Harvard continue, we shouldn’t track changes in grade ratios as a proxy for improving ...

Grade inflation here at Penn is not the world’s most pressing problem. But, as its inclusion in the Trump administration’s proposed Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education makes clear, ...

Grade inflation has got to stop — but so do the professors who try to reverse it single-handedly. Don't get me wrong: I'm not advocating that professors should give students grades they don't deserve.

A few years ago, I penned an op-ed in this space about grade inflation. Unfortunately, the problem has gotten noticeably worse, as highlighted by the Review-Journal in its Nov. 12 editorial, ...

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 ...

Mike Obstgarten’s “Academic fraud: Grade inflation is a scourge that must be eradicated” (Nov. 23 commentary) reminded me of a midterm grade I received my first semester in college. It was an easy ...