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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Every student should get to feel brilliant at school. But too often, they don’t. In many classrooms, success still depends on how well a student fits onto a single, familiar bell curve–the one ...

Anyone familiar with basic statistics is familiar with the concept of a bell curve. A bell curve is a visual representation of normal data distribution, in which the median represents the highest ...