Apr 13, 2023 · Grade inflation likely increases graduation rates through two channels. The first is that higher grades mean that students are less likely to be dismissed from the university for bad...

Nov 12, 2024 · With reformers and the U.S. Education Department pressuring colleges to improve graduation rates, it should be no surprise that grade inflation has followed students into …

Sep 30, 2025 · In this Homeroom Blog, guest author Christopher Schorr, PhD, discusses the prevalence of grade inflation at American universities and potential strategies to address it.

Feb 25, 2025 · A new wave of “meritocracy” obsessives seem convinced that there are just too many good grades being given out. But what drives our nation’s periodic panic about grade inflation?

Mar 27, 2026 · Some 60 percent of the nearly 100 faculty members who responded to an informal Chronicle survey said that they had lowered their expectations because students were coming in less …

Feb 25, 2025 · A new wave of “meritocracy” obsessives seem convinced that there are just too many good grades being given out. But what drives our nation’s periodic panic about grade inflation?

Oct 28, 2025 · Perhaps the most important reason is that grade inflation undermines student effort. Intuitively, when students expect higher grades, they study less. This means weaker mastery of both...

Nov 5, 2025 · A report on grade inflation in Harvard’s undergraduate program has stirred up critics of ‘snowflake’ culture, but it tells a deeper story about fairness, rigor, money, and power.

Apr 14, 2025 · He reached out to The Chronicle after a recent episode of our podcast, College Matters, on grade inflation to share his process and explain why he thinks this subject is important.

Jun 1, 2023 · After a recent essay in The Chronicle argued that graduation rates were ticking up because of grade inflation, we asked readers how you interpret rising grades.