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30 Ways to Rate a College Chronicle of Higher Education - Interactive Graph August 29, 2010 The lines below connect raters to each of the measures they take into account. Notice how few measures are shared by two or more raters. That indicates a lack of agreement among them on what defines quality. Much of the emphasis is on "input measures" such as student selectivity, faculty-student ratio, and retention of freshmen. Except for graduation rates, almost no "outcome measures," such as whether a student comes out prepared to succeed in the work force, are used.

2010 College Rankings Washington Monthly August 28, 2010 Unlike U.S. News and World Report and similar guides, this one asks not what colleges can do for you, but what colleges are doing for the country. Are they educating low-income students, or just catering to the affluent? Are they improving the quality of their teaching, or ducking accountability for it?  Every year we lavish billions of tax dollars and other public benefits on institutions of higher learning. This guide asks: Are we getting the most for our money?

Colleges That Will Make You Rich Forbes Magazine August 27, 2010 Our list doesn't just rank the schools where graduates make the most money. Instead, we're interested in schools that raise their students above salary expectations. These are the colleges who can take a group of students that, statistically speaking, shouldn't go on to earn much, and help them beat the odds and make big bucks.

Rankings give a distorted view of the value of colleges Newark, N.J., Star-Ledger - Opinion Piece August 27, 2010 This obsession with status and popular rankings undermines America's historic commitment to a higher educational system in which some form of college education has been potentially available to all American high school graduates regardless of their age, how well they did in high school, where they live, or their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion or social class.

Expand students' global experiences Politico - Opinion Piece August 24, 2010 Through a federal Higher Education Act grant program called cooperative education programs, Northeastern University is doing its part to meet President Obama's goal for the US to have the highest number of college graduates in the world by 2020. Cooperative education, or co-op programs, offer students alternate classroom studies with long-term, paid internships in a wide array of settings. Northeastern University president believes the co-op experience offer students a competitive advantage by helping them master the demands of the professional workplace.

A Different Way of Ranking Colleges New York Times - Economix Blog August 23, 2010 The biggest flaw with the famous U.S. News & World Report ranking is that it largely rewards colleges that enroll highly qualified (and, typically, affluent) students, regardless of how much those students learn while on campus. Washington Monthly instead tries reward those colleges that do a good job educating students.

Why Johnny’s College Isn’t What It Used to Be New Yokr Times - Book Review August 19, 2010 In Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids - and What We Can Do About It, Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus have written a lucid, passionate and wide-ranging book on the state of American higher education and what they perceive as its increasing betrayal of its primary mission - for them, the teaching of undergraduates. That both are academics provides them with memorable, often acerbic anecdotes that neatly offset their citations of statistics and (it must be said) their sometimes rather sweeping generalizations.

Higher Education The Diane Rehm Show, NPR August 17, 2010 Two professors examine the American higher education system and explain how students and parents can get the most for their money.  Guests:  Andrew Hacker, professor of political science, Queens College, New York, and co-author of Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids - And What We Can Do About It; Mark Taylor, chair, Department of Religion, Columbia University, professor of philosophy of religion at Union Theological Seminary, professor emeritus of humanities at Williams College, and author of Crisis on Campus: A Bold Plan for Reforming our Colleges and Universities.

To What End? Inside Higher Ed - Opinion August 16, 2010 While there is much to celebrate in the "completion agenda" so many community colleges are endorsing, some of the premises need scrutiny.

Maybe fewer people should go to college Minneapolis Star Tribune - Opinion Piece August 14, 2010 Many young people look more excitedly on becoming skilled and successful craftsmen and artisans rather than underemployed and underpaid baccalaureate winners. They would be more peacefully primed to pursue their actual dreams if college work wasn't almost always viewed as an inherently higher educational calling than other kinds of postsecondary training.

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