An analysis from the University’s Office of Institutional Research and Analytics shows a steady increase in undergraduate ...
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 ...
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 ...
On Dec. 2, Princeton released its report on undergraduate grade inflation. Our Opinion writers share their takes on grade ...
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.
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 own sake.
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 ...
Last year, the average GPA for Harvard University’s Class of 2025 was 3.83. That’s not a typo. At Harvard, one of the world’s most selective colleges, the average student graduating in 2025 had a 3.83 ...
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For the last couple of decades, with increasing frequency, grade inflation has been identified as a problem in high schools, colleges, and most recently in my department, in graduate classes. I’m one ...
The numbers paint a stark picture of what it’s like to be a graduating student in the province right now, as university admissions ramp up and education experts call for an overhaul of both the high ...