With the crisis in learning standards, Texas should strengthen the learning-outcomes component of its definition of student success. Students deserve both a timely path to graduation and a degree that signifies genuine progress in learning.
Higher Education
Harvard Joins the ‘Right-Wing Conspiracy’—Declares That College Grades Have Been a Joke for Decades
So, it turns out that the little boy was right all along about the emperor’s new clothes. In an effort to restore grading standards, Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences is conducting an email ballot on the administration’s proposal to limit solid A grades at 20% of students per course (plus up to four additional A’s, if merited)....
June 5, 2026