Responding to grade inflation, Harvard has moved toward a cap on the percentage of A grades professors may assign. There's nuance to the policy beyond the headline. I urge everyone to read it all the way through. Gift article. #Harvard #GradeInflation #Admissions #Standards

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Let me give you my scholarly, professional, insightful, and immediately actionable summary and take on the matter: it’s a gigantic mess. Good look to all instructors out there in the grading trenches.

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When is a C actually an A+? Or, how grade inflation is ruining American schools.

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Significant grade inflation may be occurring in graduate education, according to decades' worth of data Analysis of two decades of student data at a large U.S. university suggests that grade inflation exists in graduate education. Researcher Vivien Lee and colleagues at the University of Minnesota, U.S....

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Analysis of two decades of student data at a large U.S. university suggests that grade inflation exists in graduate education.

Why Students Are Obsessed With ‘Points Taken Off’ Students and professors are in a drawn-out battle over grade inflation. It may never end.

Grade inflation is pretty easy to understand once you know the criteria by which college & university professors are promoted & tenured & the way academic institutions raise $ www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... #college #university #academia #gradeinflation

Paper summary of what the tweet says

The hidden cost of an "Easy A":
This study shows that grade inflation actively harms students' long-term success, leading to:
📉 Lower future test scores
🎓 Less college enrollment
💸 Massive drops in lifetime earnings

There is an easy fix for this!!
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When an A becomes the minimum, students don't relax. They tighten. Students start seeking grade certainty from their professors, not chasing understanding. An A doesn’t feel good, just a relief wasn't the “failure” of a B.
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Thoughts on #GradeInflation from the demand side

The Entry-Level Hiring Process Is Breaking Down Grade inflation and the rise of AI are making it impossible for employers to evaluate recent graduates.

I hope one day we have the collection gumption to seriously educate young Americans & hold them to challenging but ultimately the most helpful standards. #gradeinflation at our #colleges and #universities is simply not helpful for anyone. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Colleges Have Struggled To Curb Grade Inflation. Can Harvard Beat the Odds? | News | The Harvard Crimson When the Office of Undergraduate Education released a report in October suggesting that Harvard College overhaul its “failing” evaluation system to curb grade inflation, it acknowledged that other eli...

Key word here is “curb” because “eliminating” is impossible for a range of reasons no one really wants to acknowledge. 🤫

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Zimmerman (2020, p.176) on the array of factors fueling grade inflation in the 1970s:

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Seriously you Wharton profs have a lot to answer for. #gradeinflation.

Opinion | Why not get rid of grades? Grade inflation is ruining education. Let’s get rid of them.

Harvard’s average GPA is now 3.8. At Yale, nearly 60% of grades are A’s. Grade inflation is real—and it’s undermining learning. Should we ditch letter grades altogether? Thought-provoking piece on the future of education. #HigherEd #GradeInflation

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With one exception, every college or university in which I've been a faculty member has gone through a spasm of fretting over grade inflation. The pattern does not vary much. Someone in power -- a provost, a trustee -- gives a speech or an interview... /1

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My midterm has 30 multiple-choice questions; each one worth 3pts, for a total of 90pts.
I found out today that students get 3pts for a correct answer AND 1pt for an INCORRECT answer. So, if you get 20 out of 30 correct, you get a 77.8%, when you should get a 66.7%. #Education #GradeInflation

Grade inflation narrative is ahistorical (opinion) The narrative around grade inflation would benefit from some historical perspective, write Christopher J. Richmann and Ryan T. Ramsey.

I'm generally annoyed about grade inflation complaints, so I am the choir being preached to here.

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Shanil Virani on Instagram: "Today’s guest scientists gra... 14 likes, 0 comments - shanilv on February 21, 2018: "Tod...

Today’s guest scientists graded my tests for me!! Apparently everyone got an A+ #gradeinflation https://www.instagram.com/p/BfeEPdwDyLs/