Harvard University students received fewer As in their fall semester classes following concerns about academic rigor and ...

Grade inflation is the predictable result of how American universities now organize teaching, labor, and money.

Harvard faculty awarded significantly fewer A grades in the fall, cutting the share of top marks by nearly seven percentage ...

Even though Claybaugh’s communiqué has taken pains to declare that grades should mean something, Harvard has not effectively coordinated a shared standard for how that meaning should translate across ...

Earlier this fall, Harvard University released a report from its Classroom Social Compact Committee. Among other things, it noted that rampant grade inflation allowed students to regularly skip ...

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 ...

A few years ago, I penned an op-ed in this space about grade inflation. Unfortunately, the problem has gotten noticeably worse, as highlighted by the Review-Journal in its Nov. 12 editorial, ...

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.