We know now from decades of research that grades are not scientific or objective measurements of student learning.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Yale committee offered 20 recommendations. (Joe Buglewicz—Bloomberg/Getty Images) Higher education is mired in a PR crisis.

Harvard has finally said publicly what most people in higher education have known for years: the A has become too common to mean what it once meant. Faculty at Harvard College voted to limit flat A ...