Over winter break, students who took UNC Professor Gary Pielak’s Chemistry 430: Introduction to Biological Chemistry course ...

"We strive for our students to one day reach doctoral programs, relentless nightmares about analytical chemistry, research ...

A new kind of grading system is gaining traction at the University of Michigan. About 8,000 students at the University’s Ann Arbor campus have earned grades through GradeCraft, in which they ...

Grading on a curve isn't just for college papers--many companies use numeric performance reviews and then fit employees to a bell curve. Unlike school, however, an employee's rating can determine ...

The Aug. 17 Catherine Rampell column “A’s for everyone: Grade inflation lives on” demonstrates a limited understanding of how teachers currently talk about teaching, learning and grading. Her premise ...

Despite the obvious flaws of an educational system based upon academic standards, it is far superior to the available alternatives. The politically correct blood sport among educational commentators ...

I came from a very interesting High School. We had the highest college acceptance rates in the state (Something like 99% or so. Absurdly high) of Washington, with the highest average SAT scores, etc ...

Actually, grades reflect performance, not quotas. Recent scores gave twice as many Fs as As and more Ds than Bs. That's not a bell curve.

Law school grades. The very thought of them churns our insides. We still have nightmares (literally) about the big bulletin board at Michigan upon which the grades were posted back in the mid-1990s.