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 ...

I recently saw the spread of grades for an exam at the UW-Madison business school. The grades ranged from 83 to 95. This led to an argument with my gf about the validity of applying a curve to this ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two in three students say their professors grade fairly over all, according to the recent Student Voice survey of 3,004 two- and four-year students by Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse. About one in ...