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.
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 has finally acknowledged that it has a problem with grade inflation. Unfortunately, though the university has now admitted that its instructors award too many A’s, its proposed solutions fall ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Nov. 30 Plain Dealer contained two intriguing articles that, while in separate parts of the paper, were certainly connected. Michael J. Coren’s “The case for letting kids out of our sight” and ...
・Harvard's Office of Undergraduate Education reported that 60% of undergraduate grades are A's, highlighting significant grade inflation that threatens the academic culture of the college. ・Dean ...
Jason Riley rightly highlights the troubling rise of grade inflation (“How Do You Spell ‘Harvard’? With an Endless Supply of A’s,” Upward Mobility, Nov. 19). In my experience, the problem is ...
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 ...