Grade inflation in pandemic strengthened university prospects for private school and disadvantaged students

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 ...

2026 NBA Draft grades: Report card for all 30 teams

The 2026 NBA Draft is complete. The two-day event from Brooklyn began with the Washington Wizards picking BYU star AJ ...
The Virgin Islands Consortium

KIDS COUNT Data Shows USVI Gains in Graduation and Employment, but Math Scores, Wages and Housing Pressures Remain Concerns

The local findings, highlighted by St. Croix Foundation’s KIDS COUNT USVI team, cover trends from 2019 to 2024 and were ...
Tech Times

AI Grade Inflation Documented in 500,000 Grades: Homework Rises, Skills Do Not

AI grade inflation is now empirically documented: a UC Berkeley analysis of 500,000 college grades found A’s jumped 30 ...
Chicago Tribune

No small task to move U-46 sixth-grade classes to middle schools

School District U-46 officials have dubbed the huge relocation project they currently undertaking “Moving the U.” “The transition of sixth grade to middle school is one important component of Moving ...
Yahoo! Sports

Average team recruiting rankings for 2027 class

World Cup power rankings: Who's most likely to win it all now? One game into the first World Cup Round of 32, it’s time to power rank the remaining 31 teams. Any potential trade with the Clippers ...
Dallas Morning News

America’s colleges have let grade inflation get out of hand

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 ...
The Washington Post

Harvard’s solution won’t stop runaway A’s. This could.

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 ...
Scientific American

How mathematicians use Minecraft to calculate pi

The blockbuster game Minecraft depicts a world created by cubes: everything is made of discrete building blocks. It may therefore seem particularly unsuitable for calculating pi (π), the mathematical ...
Austin American-Statesman

Does UT give out too many A's? It's fueling concerns about academic rigor

Higher education is in trouble — and grades are losing their meaning. That’s the verdict a committee from Yale University reached last month in a report that said universities have strayed from their ...
The Harvard Crimson

70% of Faculty Vote to Overhaul Harvard Grading With A Cap

Harvard faculty voted to impose a roughly 20 percent cap on A grades beginning in fall 2027, approving the College’s most aggressive attempt in decades to reverse grade inflation and reshape academic ...
New York Magazine

Getting Straight A’s at Harvard Might Not Be So Easy Anymore

America’s oldest and most prestigious university may soon be deliberately taking many of its students down a notch. This week, Harvard faculty members are voting on a contentious proposal to rein in ...