On Dec. 2, Princeton released its report on undergraduate grade inflation. Our Opinion writers share their takes on grade inflation at Princeton.
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 ...
Problems of collective action must be addressed collectively. That means that any solution to grade inflation on campus must ...
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 .
Harvard reports — perhaps better to say it admits — that over 60 percent of its students received A’s. This has set off a new round of hand-wringing about grade inflation. The first round I remember ...
The one form of inflation that can’t be blamed on Joe Biden is grade inflation. Evidence of this practice is the preponderance of A’s in student grades at Harvard and other formerly elite universities ...
Harvard University has been trying to cut back how many A grades professors give. Now, 53 percent of grades are A’s, down from 60 percent. By Mark Arsenault It used to be unusual for a Harvard student ...
Harvard University is proposing to limit the number of top grades awarded to undergraduate students, responding to concerns that grade inflation may weaken the meaning of a degree from the school. The ...