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

Kai I. Russell ’29, a Crimson Editorial comper, lives in Wigglesworth Hall. General Education: The apple of the Harvard administration’s eye, but the program the student body neglects. Gen Eds have ...

Harvard faculty awarded significantly fewer A grades in the fall term after the College encouraged instructors to address ...

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

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 ...

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, ...