Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students on the Harvard University campus. Pressure to improve graduation rates is contributing to inaccurate grading. (Charles ...

Since pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses began waning, culture warriors have been casting about for a new controversy in elite higher education. Last October, Harvard handed them one. Amanda ...

Grade inflation happens when teachers knowingly give a student a mark higher than deserved. It can also happen indirectly, when the level of difficulty of a course is deliberately lowered so students ...