TAMPA, Fla. — Every year, the state’s Department of Education releases grades for school districts across the state based on a number of things, but primarily, on test scores, and the Hillsborough ...

The first empirical evidence of how A-level grading in the pandemic affected university applications corroborates concerns about disproportionate benefits for private schools. Disadvantaged students ...

Grade inflation is a tough problem to solve. Harvard recently announced a cap on A’s in any given class, but it doesn’t address lower grades, including A-minuses, and such measures tend to provoke ...

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The trade of A.J. Brown going to the New England Patriots is one of the biggest in the NFL this decade, yet it also felt anticlimactic. The Patriots went 14-3 last season and made a Super Bowl, with ...

Trading for one defensive star this offseason wasn’t enough for the Los Angeles Rams. The Rams had to trade for the best defensive player in the NFL. The “forget those picks” era for the Rams hasn’t ...

Many college graduates are leaving school this season with near-perfect GPAs. Sure, many are high-achieving, smart students, but as the number of students receiving top grades continues to rise, it is ...

Vincent Phillip Muñoz is a professor at the University of Notre Dame. University administrators have long known that grade inflation is a problem, but no one has been willing to do much about it. The ...

Harvard faculty voted in favor of capping A grades at 20% on Wednesday in an effort to combat grade inflation. "Today the Harvard faculty voted to make their grades mean what they say they mean," a ...

University of Arizona officials say the school's yield rate — the percentage of applicants who accept an offer of admission — is better than in previous years overall. The average grade point average ...

At a time when it's easier than ever to earn an A at Harvard, faculty will vote this week on a measure that would limit how many top grades they can hand out to students in each class. A's now ...

As if college students didn’t have enough to worry about, now undergrads at Harvard University may see their A grades go up in smoke. With over 60% of Harvard students getting A’s in the mid-2025 ...