Harvard is worried about going soft. Specifically, about grade inflation, the name for giving ever higher marks to ever more students. According to an “Update on Grading and Workload” from the ...

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.

More than a quarter of middle and high schools in the Tucson area's largest districts are awarding passing grades students may not be earning, an Arizona Daily Star investigation found. The 10-month ...

As often happens with attention-grabbing issues in higher education, much of the conversation about grade inflation is focused on the most-selective colleges. But Peter Burkholder, a professor 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, ...

Senior Fellow Joshua Katz joined Chicago’s Morning Answer to discuss the declining performance in K–12 schools and rampant grade inflation in elite universities.

Jason Riley rightly highlights the troubling rise of grade inflation (“How Do You Spell ‘Harvard’? With an Endless Supply of A’s,” Upward Mobility, Nov. 19). In my experience, the problem is ...

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 ...

More Harvard College students than ever are passing their classes with flying colors, but the College’s evaluation system is “failing to perform the key functions of grading,” according to a report ...

・Harvard's Office of Undergraduate Education reported that 60% of undergraduate grades are A's, highlighting significant grade inflation that threatens the academic culture of the college. ・Dean ...