Grade inflation may lead to poor academic performance and lower earnings in the workforce among students in the U.S., according to a new study reported by The Hechinger Report. The study, presented at ...

Walk into any high school these days and you'll find honor rolls packed with dozens of students, valedictorians with identical 4.0 GPAs fighting for the top spot, and grade distributions that would've ...

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 has finally acknowledged that it has a problem with grade inflation. Unfortunately, though the university has now admitted that its instructors award too many A’s, its proposed solutions fall ...

Since pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses began waning, culture warriors have been casting about for a new controversy in elite higher education. Last October, Harvard handed them one. Amanda ...

Alexandria Westray is a senior at Harvard. A government major from Pittsburgh, she says limiting As would hurt students’ futures. “It's a farce to say that there's nothing distinguishing Harvard ...

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 ...

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 ...

The analysis revealed grade inflation in both master's and doctoral programs, even after accounting for students' GRE scores, sex, and ethnicity. Importantly, the trend of grade inflation appeared to ...

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 petition launched by a freshman at Harvard University argues that campus leaders’ efforts to reform grade inflation at the ...