I’ve always been obsessed with achieving straight A’s on my report card. The school I attended from preschool through sixth grade pushed me to think that as long as you get an A, you can be happy, ...

Prasad is a fourth-year medical student and public policy graduate student in Austin, Texas. A “quiet but consequential erosion of standards” is how a Republican Texas state senator described ...

As scores of medical schools across the nation have changed grading scales, the University of Minnesota is considering following suit. Currently, the school uses a pass-fail-honors scale, but the ...