Most professors do not think the repeal of the grade deflation policy will have a marked effect on their grading, according to close to 50 interviews conducted by The Daily Princetonian in the days ...

Princeton’s grade deflation system and Microsoft’s employee evaluation system essentially operate on the same principles. Managers, like professors, are pressed to evaluate everyone with a grade, and ...

Ten years after Princeton University adopted a “grade deflation” policy, faculty members voted on Monday to reverse the policy and allow each department to determine its own grading standards, The ...

Students across England are receiving lower grades than they might have done in 2022. The percentage of A or A* grades given for A-levels has fallen from 35.9% to 26.5% in 2023. Pupils’ grades are ...

Six years ago, Princeton University adopted a new goal for grades issued in all academic departments: that A’s would account for no more than 35% of all grades. Naturally, this met with some ...

This academic year, Harvard has endured a dark night of the soul, including (among other troubles) facing down the consequences of grade inflation and searching for curricular absolution. In a ...

Over the past several decades, grade inflation has become an increasingly common concern across U.S. higher education. Proposed solutions have taken many forms, from listing median course grades on ...

In response to the article “Tours don’t tell the whole story,” (by Katie Kelly) I am very agitated with Boston University and its academic policies. It seems as though they discourage teachers to give ...

The UC Berkeley Office of Planning and Analysis, or OPA, recently released a database that lists student GPAs by major since 2007, revealing a trend of undergraduate grade deflation across a number of ...