The Report Card with Nat Malkus: What Harvard’s New Grade Inflation Policy Gets Wrong (with Scott Duke Kominers)

Recently, Harvard faculty voted to push back on grade inflation at the institution by capping the proportion of A’s given to students at 20%. But according to a new paper, Harvard’s new policy—and grade caps in general—are not the right solution. In What Does a Grade Mean? Informativeness and Strategic Manipulation of Grading Systems, Scott […]