60% of Harvard Grades Were A's in 2025. Now the School Is Fighting Grade Inflation.

In the 2024–2025 school year, 60.2 percent of grades awarded at Harvard were A's, according to the school's Office of ...

AI not yet good enough to grade university essays, rewarding 'style over substance'

Researchers have used top Generative AI models to grade hundreds of undergraduate essays and found that AI only matched human-awarded degree classification around half the time, with AI often failing ...

Harvard faculty votes to make it more difficult for undergrads to earn A's

Harvard University faculty have voted to limit the number of A grades awarded to undergraduates, approving one of the most ...
New York Magazine

Harvard Will Manufacture a Scarcity of A’s

Starting in the fall of 2027, Harvard undergrads will be competing for a limited number of available A grades in each of ...

Harvard faculty vote to limit A grades for undergraduates

Harvard faculty voted to cap the number of A grades given to undergraduates at about 20 percent per class, taking assertive action to reverse years of grade inflation at a time of intense scrutiny of ...

Harvard Faculty Votes To Cap How Many A's Professors Hand Out

Following months of debate, Harvard faculty voted to cap the number of A grades awarded per course. The policy goes into ...
Fox Sports

2026 NFL Draft Grades: Which Teams Aced Their First-Round Picks?

What had been mocked everywhere for months became official Thursday night: The Las Vegas Raiders selected quarterback Fernando Mendoza with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft. And then draft ...
New York Post

I’m an NYC teacher — grading ‘equity’ is destroying our schools

As a New York City public high-school teacher, I’m all too aware that our grading standards have been crumbling. But even I was stunned when I heard of a student at a friend’s school who received ...
The Conversation

Standards‑based grading offers a different model of assessing student learning in the classroom

Some school districts, including ones in Maine, New Mexico, Iowa and Oregon, are shifting to standards-based grading, where students are graded on the skills and concepts they learn instead of points ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Real Problem Behind Grade Inflation

M indy Bernhardt teaches criminal justice to undergraduates at Kennesaw State University. In recent years she has found herself grading more easily and expecting less from her students. The reason?
wsbt

Operation Education: Indiana schools will earn letter grade with new accountability model

Students in Indiana won't be the only ones earning a report card. Schools will soon receive an A through F grade. The Indiana State Board of Education approved its K-12 Accountability Rule. It is ...
Inside Higher Ed

Harvard to Tackle Grade Inflation With Cap on A’s

Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences will vote next month on whether to cap the number of A grades that instructors can assign in each course, effectively cutting in half the percentage ...