A student in one of my courses recently elected to switch from a standard letter grade to a pass-fail option, under a Bowdoin ...

Welcome to New York’s flunking factories. Failure in the city’s public education system has become “normalized” — and even ...

The analysis revealed grade inflation in both master's and doctoral programs, even after accounting for students' GRE scores, sex, and ethnicity. Importantly, the trend of grade inflation appeared to ...

But grade inflation marches on. A 2022 Times analysis showed that grades in the Los Angeles Unified School District had been rising while scores on standardized tests were falling — and that the two ...

Harvard faculty recently voted to cap A grades at 20% of undergraduates per course to combat grade inflation. The Dartmouth’s Opinion writers weighed in about grade inflation at Dartmouth. Grade ...

The first empirical evidence of how A-level grading in the pandemic affected university applications corroborates concerns about disproportionate benefits for private schools. Disadvantaged students ...

Recently, a spate of news coverage has raised concerns about grade inflation in schools across Canada. These concerns stem in part from policies stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, when there was ...

Recently, there has been a lot of handwringing over grade inflation both at the higher education and K–12 levels, but how big of a problem actually is grade inflation? What sort of effect does grade ...

Kai I. Russell ’29, a Crimson Editorial comper, lives in Wigglesworth Hall. General Education: The apple of the Harvard administration’s eye, but the program the student body neglects. Gen Eds have ...

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 ...

The Hill is a nonpartisan publication reporting on the inner workings of government and the nexus of politics and business. Harvard reports — perhaps better to say it admits — that over 60 percent of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students on the Harvard University campus. Pressure to improve graduation rates is contributing to inaccurate grading. (Charles ...