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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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