Last night the faculty of Yale University decided to postpone voting on a controversial modification to the school's grading system — essentially, instituting a grading curve — thus averting a major ...

The mean grade point average in all undergraduate courses taken in the McDonough School of Business will now be capped at 3.5 out of 4.0 in an effort to decrease competition among students. This new ...

Every semester, almost as soon as the course guide goes live, I log on to Atlas to review prospective classes for the next term. When I find a class that sounds interesting, I click on its tab. But ...

The University of Southern California Gould School of Law is the latest to consider grade reforms, but don't expect a sea change in Los Angeles. USC Law Dean Robert Rasmussen has proposed modifying ...

Ah, the almighty law school grading curve, a never-ending source of controversy, consternation and confusion. But do curves -- whether they have low or high C distributions -- even matter? That was ...

Harsher grading policies in science, technology, engineering and math courses disproportionately affect women -- because women value good grades significantly more than men do, according to a new ...

WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. — Some parents in Lexington-Richland School District 5 discovered a "grading floor" that has sparked mixed feelings district wide. In a Facebook post a mother explained that ...