In 2020, the UC Board of Regents, against the advice of many, chose to eliminate standardized test scores such as the SAT ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than a quarter of middle and high schools in the Tucson area's largest districts are awarding passing grades students may not be earning, an Arizona Daily Star investigation found. The 10-month ...

When students offer academic advice to others, one of the most commonly overheard statements might be about a teacher’s grading scale, one student steering the other away from a former professor ...

Re “Excellence at Yale Doubted as Nearly Everyone Gets A’s” (news article, Dec. 6): The recent article about grade inflation at Yale was quite interesting but underplayed the role that students play.

Groceries, gas, and, surprisingly, grades have all been victims of inflation over the past several decades. As teaching methods and policies have adjusted nationwide, an A has lost its value as it is ...

Grades in Washington may not indicate how well a student is doing in school, researchers say. And they worry about kids falling further behind if things don’t change. New research shows educators are ...

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 ...