Harvard University has been trying to cut back how many A grades professors give. Now, 53 percent of grades are A’s, down from 60 percent.

Boston University’s College of Communication rolled out a new grading policy for the 2025-26 academic year, making it the second school at Boston University to adopt a standardized scale alongside the ...

Grades are a well-established part of the K-12 education system that, in most school districts, play a decisive role in students’ academic standing. But what goes into the single letter or number that ...

Harvard students are in an uproar after the school’s Office of Undergraduate Education released a report last week saying the Ivy League school is “failing to perform the key functions of grading,” ...

My son Andrew is currently in the midst of the college application process. My daughter Megan is a junior in college. And in my job as a college professor, I constantly find myself in conversations ...

Educators at the San Leandro Unified school district in Northern California had a grading and assessment dilemma. In 2013, some students getting D and F letter grades were meeting content standards on ...

The Arkansas Department of Education released public school letter grades on Friday, with roughly three-quarters of public K-12 schools receiving grades of C or higher. The letter grades are the first ...