Steinbrenner High’s valedictorian says there are more important things than eye-popping grades. Increasingly, schools and colleges seem to agree. Vaibhav Bhaskar, 17, addresses the 2026 graduating ...

Faculty members overwhelmingly approved a limit on the number of top grades they can give to about a fifth of their undergraduate classes. By Mark Arsenault Faculty members at Harvard University voted ...

Over the past several decades, grade inflation has become an increasingly common concern across U.S. higher education. Proposed solutions have taken many forms, from listing median course grades on ...

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Last year, the average GPA for Harvard University’s Class of 2025 was 3.83. That’s not a typo. At Harvard, one of the world’s most selective colleges, the average student graduating in 2025 had a 3.83 ...

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Harvard University has been trying to cut back how many A grades professors give. Now, 53 percent of grades are A’s, down from 60 percent. By Mark Arsenault It used to be unusual for a Harvard student ...

OpenAI is paying employees more than any tech startup in recent history, according to financial data it has shown investors. The company’s stock-based compensation is about $1.5 million per employee, ...

Harvard has finally acknowledged that it has a problem with grade inflation. Unfortunately, though the university has now admitted that its instructors award too many A’s, its proposed solutions fall ...

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Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 is the Kenan Research Professor of Government at Harvard. Dean of Undergraduate Education Amanda Claybaugh’s report on grade inflation is the first serious treatment of that ...