The committee offered 20 recommendations, spanning everything from protecting free speech, supporting “open minds,” fixing ...

Faculty at the oldest college in the country are debating whether to limit the number of top grades issued to undergraduates.

The April 12 editorial “ Harvard’s grade inflation experiment ” did not address a key issue regarding grading science, ...

Like monetary inflation, runaway A’s in higher education are a collective-action problem. About two-thirds of grades at ...

A new study reveals that grade inflation is occurring in graduate and doctoral programs, with master’s students experiencing greater GPA increases.

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 ...

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 ...

Harvard’s measure purports to “ give meaning ” back to an A. Students should have to work hard to earn a high grade and ...

Straight‑A report cards have never been more common for America’s teens—but the payoff is not what parents think. A new National Bureau of Economic Research study finds that when teachers hand out ...

Predicted GPA by year and by degree level. Predicted values are conditional on model covariates and reflect the reference groups used in the analyses (female and White students), with GRE held at its ...

Faculty voiced cautious support for a proposal that would cap undergraduate A grades at roughly 20 percent and introduce an internal ranking system, saying the policy would curb longstanding grade ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Grade inflation could contribute to lower future earnings. (John Paraskevas/Newsday RM via Getty Images) Straight‑A report cards ...