At UCLA, for whom the bell curve tolls depends on the professor and not much else. The bell curve, a statistical measure of grading, assesses students’ academic performance relative to other students ...

Last night the faculty of Yale University decided to postpone voting on a controversial modification to the school's grading system — essentially, instituting a grading curve — thus averting a major ...

Ah, the almighty law school grading curve, a never-ending source of controversy, consternation and confusion. But do curves -- whether they have low or high C distributions -- even matter? That was ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. GUILFORD COUNTY, N.C. — The State of North ...

The mean grade point average in all undergraduate courses taken in the McDonough School of Business will now be capped at 3.5 out of 4.0 in an effort to decrease competition among students. This new ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Abigail Schad/DAILY Every semester, almost as soon as the course guide goes live, I log on to ...

For many years, students in introductory economics courses at the University of Pennsylvania have engaged in cutthroat competition, refusing to share notes or to help confused classmates. But those ...

The University of Southern California Gould School of Law is the latest to consider grade reforms, but don't expect a sea change in Los Angeles. USC Law Dean Robert Rasmussen has proposed modifying ...