It’s May. Time for spring flowers, Mother’s Day, summer vacation planning, and the infliction of standardized tests on most kids in this country.
Along with the time-honored (unfortunate) tradition of posting bogus “best of” high school rankings.
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Good Schools Are Messy
According to the Washington Post, “Virginia is looking for a new way to evaluate its schools”.
The overhaul was motivated by criticism from our MAGA-wannabe governor. Which makes the whole process suspect from the beginning.
Ranking Kids
Back in September I ranted about the college rankings from US News and a podcast episode that explained how they use some rather superficial criteria to assemble the annual list.
Continue readingThe Secret Sauce Behind College Rankings
In a recent segment of his Revisionist History podcast, Malcom Gladwell takes on the Lord of the Rankings. Also known as the US News & World Report annual list of the “best” colleges and universities in the United States.1
The ranking was first published in 1983 as a tool to raise their profile (and sell magazines) in the pre-internet era when they were a distant third to Time and Newsweek in the category of weekly news magazines.