tag: Educational ratings
Blog Post
June 26, 2015
Without Ratings, How Can ED Help the Public Make Smart Use of its Data?
After nearly two years of debate, the Department of Education has backed away from its plan to produce public ratings of colleges and universities, deciding instead to produce a data dashboard with no ratings. Users of the dashboard will be able to organize the data into custom reports of their own design, and there may be some contextualizing information, such as a comparison to the national average on certain measures. But the Department will include no judgment as to…