The British undergraduate degree classification system offers a fine alternative to our current system. The grading system ranks students from first to third class and “ordinary.” Studies have shown ...

The letter grading system continues to be used today—though it comes in many forms and variations, including curved grades and cohort grading, depending on the school system.This story ...

Formal education systems have been in place for thousands of years—from the earliest examples of China’s Xia dynasty schooling that began in 2070 B.C., to the robust, philosophically based ...

Con: Letter grades de-emphasize learning. Critics of the letter grading system say that "students have become so preoccupied with grades, they aren't actually learning," NPR summarizes.

Formal education systems have been in place for thousands of years—from the earliest examples of China’s Xia dynasty schooling that began in 2070 B.C., to the robust, philosophically based ...

Unlike the current letter grading system, however, the Mount Holyoke scale was an A–E system, with no letter F grade in place. There are other differences in this letter grade scale, too.