A Harvard faculty committee has recommended capping the number of A grades that can be assigned in undergraduate classes to 20%, plus up to four additional A’s per class.

A recent report found that a majority of grades given out at Harvard were A’s. Professors will vote on a proposal to limit ...

Faculty voiced cautious support for a proposal that would cap undergraduate A grades at roughly 20 percent and introduce an ...

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 ...

It’s time for Harvard students to say goodbye to their straight-A’s. On Friday, a committee of faculty advised the school to ...

Problems of collective action must be addressed collectively. That means that any solution to grade inflation on campus must ...

Harvard University is proposing to limit the number of top grades awarded to undergraduate students, responding to concerns ...

Harvard cuts A grades by nearly 7 percentage points as university tackles widespread grade inflation crisis affecting student evaluations and academic standards.

Harvard committee proposes capping A grades at 20% per class starting 2026-27 to combat grade inflation that has seen over 60 ...

This might sound impossibly old-fashioned, but I still like the idea that education is about learning: facts, skills, concepts, research, culture, analysis, inspiration. It’s supposed to enrich our ...

A decade ago, an esteemed professor delivered a lecture upon receiving a university award for a “significant contribution to the learning environment.” After the lecture, he took questions from the ...

The consequences of never failing are worse than the occasional bad grade.