A Harvard faculty committee has recommended capping the number of A grades that can be assigned in undergraduate classes to 20%, plus up to four additional A’s per class.

The Northern Cass school district in North Dakota last spring graduated its first class of seniors who went through most of high school without receiving letter grades. Instead, their report cards ...

To S/U or not to S/U? That is the question. At least, until the end of this week. This year, the deadline for students to request satisfactory/unsatisfactory (S/U ...

After two years of discussion, project team administrators, team leads and faculty advisors have begun a phase-out period of the letter grading system for project team credit courses. These changes to ...

Harvard committee proposes capping A grades at 20% per class starting 2026-27 to combat grade inflation that has seen over 60% of undergraduate grades become A's.

After the fall 2025 final exam in Chemistry 430: Introduction to Biological Chemistry, students discovered that their instructor readjusted grade cutoffs, significantly lowering many students' marks ...

Several years ago, during a one-on-one conversation with an art teacher at the middle school where I was principal, I came to an unsettling realization. We were wrestling with the fact that our ...