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 has reduced the number of A grades by about 7 percent amid concerns about grade inflation. Dean Amanda Claybaugh emphasized the need for academic rigor and plans to review ...

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 has long been a problem in higher education. I taught my first college classes in 1981. It was a concern then and remained so throughout my career. A recent article in The Chronicle of ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.