Quoted: Pericles Lewis

Andrew Hurley

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“I think a situation where a majority of grades are a straight A, and where the median grade is an A, obscures differences in accomplishment by the students and makes it harder to reward the best-performing students.”

—Yale College dean Pericles Lewis, in a February 19 Yale Daily News article noting Harvard’s proposal to limit the awarding of A grades to 20 percent of the students enrolled in a course. Lewis says he expects that Yale will have a proposal to address grade inflation by the end of the next academic year.