Analysis of two decades of student data at a large U.S. university suggests that grade inflation exists in graduate education ...

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

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

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 ...

Analysis of two decades of student data at a large U.S. university suggests that grade inflation exists in graduate education. Vivien Lee and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Harvard reports — perhaps better to say it admits — that over 60 percent of its students received A’s. This has set off a new round of hand-wringing about grade inflation. The first round I remember ...

Head Opinion editor Charlie Yale ’28, senior Opinion writer Preston Ferraiuolo ’26, and Opinion columnist Audrey Tan ’29 discuss grade inflation at Princeton.