After a recent University of California at San Diego report documented a decline in incoming freshmen’s math skills — despite ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

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.

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 ...

A detailed report released yesterday by a faculty committee studying grade inflation shows that students across the board now receive far better grades than they did 24 years ago. The report goes on ...

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 ...

I've always found the subject of law school grades to be a tremendous bore. How antiquated and feudal is a system that still regards a candidate's performance in first-year torts or civil procedure as ...