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 ...

Even when grades rise, we shouldn’t assume that every rise is unearned or indefensible. The full picture is messier than that ...

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 ...