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 ...

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, ...

(Bloomberg) -- More than half of the grades handed out at Harvard College are A’s, an increase from decades past even as school officials have sounded the alarm for years about rampant grade inflation ...

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 ...

One of the nation’s most selective institutions is sounding the alarm about grade inflation. According to a new report, A’s account for about 60 percent of all grades awarded in 2025 at Harvard ...

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 ...

A few weeks ago, a student was quoted in the Harvard Crimson calling a report on grade inflation “soul-crushing.” In the article, students — mostly freshmen — are daunted by the implications of a more ...

Harvard University’s Office of Undergraduate Education found an acceleration of grade inflation in the past decade, according to a report released Oct. 27 by the University. Students studying on the ...

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 ...

The various letters about grade inflation omit the value of failure (“Make GPAs Intelligible Again,” Sept. 6). Michael Jordan was famously cut from his high-school basketball team because his coach ...