The damage spills beyond campus: Grade inflation undermines workforce competitiveness. Today’s data confirms this: a 2024 survey finds 60% of employers doubt graduates’ readiness, blaming inflated ...

Walk into any high school these days and you'll find honor rolls packed with dozens of students, valedictorians with identical 4.0 GPAs fighting for the top spot, and grade distributions that would've ...

Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 is the Kenan Research Professor of Government at Harvard. Dean of Undergraduate Education Amanda Claybaugh’s report on grade inflation is the first serious treatment of that ...

More than a quarter of middle and high schools in the Tucson area's largest districts are awarding passing grades students may not be earning, an Arizona Daily Star investigation found. The 10-month ...

・Average GPAs are rising, but test scores are not, signaling widespread grade inflation. ・Parents and colleges are increasingly misled by inflated grades, undermining accountability and preparedness. ...

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, ...

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 ...

Harvard economist Roland Fryer explains how businesses taking a 'Merit, Excellence, and Intelligence' approach to hiring are outperforming those taking a mandatory 'Diversity, Equity and Inclusion' ...

Harvard is worried about going soft. Specifically, about grade inflation, the name for giving ever higher marks to ever more students. According to an “Update on Grading and Workload” from the ...

They Did Not Die in Vain: Venezuela and the Dream of Cuban Exiles Will Assisted Suicide Coupled with Organ Harvesting Come to the U.S.? When America Starts to Get a Little Motion Ten Quick Thoughts on ...

As often happens with attention-grabbing issues in higher education, much of the conversation about grade inflation is focused on the most-selective colleges. But Peter Burkholder, a professor of ...

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.