President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 discussed topics including grade inflation, rising public mistrust of higher ...

That was the question presenter Lauren Servais struggled with during a 2021 California Community College webinar on alternative grading strategies. Despite her reservations, Servais ultimately ...

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 ...

An analysis from the University’s Office of Institutional Research and Analytics shows a steady increase in undergraduate ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Since grade deflation is going to happen, we might as well embrace it and reapproach academics, not for a grade, but for its ...

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 ...