Good grading starts long before a class ends.

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.

Boston University’s College of Communication rolled out a new grading policy for the 2025-26 academic year, making it the second school at Boston University to adopt a standardized scale alongside the ...

As attempts to recenter academics at Harvard continue, we shouldn’t track changes in grade ratios as a proxy for improving ...

Harvard students are in an uproar after the school’s Office of Undergraduate Education released a report last week saying the Ivy League school is “failing to perform the key functions of grading,” ...

G rades at American universities have been rising for decades, a trend that accelerated during the Covid-19 pandemic. But what happened after that? Using new data collected through the 2023-24 school ...

Educators at the San Leandro Unified school district in Northern California had a grading and assessment dilemma. In 2013, some students getting D and F letter grades were meeting content standards on ...

The Arkansas Department of Education released public school letter grades on Friday, with roughly three-quarters of public K-12 schools receiving grades of C or higher. The letter grades are the first ...

My son Andrew is currently in the midst of the college application process. My daughter Megan is a junior in college. And in my job as a college professor, I constantly find myself in conversations ...