Boston University’s College of Communication rolled out a new grading policy for the 2025-26 academic year, making it the second school at Boston University to adopt a standardized scale alongside the ...

Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Tuesday postponed a vote on a contentious proposal to cap A grades, pushing the ...

Standards-based grading provides a more transparent assessment of the extent the intended learning is happening in the ...

Grades are a well-established part of the K-12 education system that, in most school districts, play a decisive role in students’ academic standing. But what goes into the single letter or number that ...

Some places are changing their grading scale in an effort to make grades more equitable among students. Education experts say the traditional 0-100 grading scale is mathematically allocated toward ...

G rades at American universities have been rising for decades, a trend that accelerated during the Covid-19 pandemic. But what happened after that? Using new data collected through the 2023-24 school ...

Grades are a standard part of the American educational system that most students and teachers take for granted. But what if students didn’t have just one shot at acing a midterm, or even could talk ...

For 68 men’s college basketball programs, March comes with the opportunity to compete for a national championship in front of millions of fans on the biggest, grandest stage that their sport has to ...

My son Andrew is currently in the midst of the college application process. My daughter Megan is a junior in college. And in my job as a college professor, I constantly find myself in conversations ...

Unlike other professional sports, MLB has an industry standard scale used to evaluated players. Whether it's their tools or skills, players are rated based on a scale from 20-80 on myriad categories — ...