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...News changes its criteria each year to make the issue more interesting," Lin said. She added that she wasn't concerned by Harvard's drop in the rankings...
...with Duke and UPenn, both of whom are a rung lower than last year. But don?t freak out, aspiring teens and parents, the world of top-flight universities isn?t undergoing some seismic shuffle. The rankers at U.S. News are just having fun tweaking their criteria. "In general, the changes in the way we rank schools boosted the rankings of a number of universities with strong science and engineering programs," explains the magazine?s disclaimer-loaded "Methodology" article. In other words, read the fine print; this ranking, when it comes to place-by-place minutiae, is little more than...
...thing you can?t look at is how the schools move from year-to-year ?- because the criteria change, it?s like apples and oranges," says TIME education reporter Jilian Kasky. "Things in schools don?t change that quickly." Another flaw, she says, is inherent: A college can?t just be good ?- it has to be good for you. "There?s just no way to objectively rank a college. You have these 16- and 17-year-olds and their parents obsessing over these ratings, and making bad decisions based on a number." Tech-heavy schools like Cal-Tech moved...
...Scouts of America has not been completely resistant to modernization of its membership criteria. After winning the lawsuit brought by the woman scoutmaster in 1987, the group eventually altered its rules and allowed women to become scoutmasters. But even as New Jersey ordered Dale to be reinstated, the group shows no sign of compromise over gays. Scout lawyer Davidson says he will bring the battle to a new arena: the U.S. Supreme Court. "This ruling unconstitutionally infringes on the rights of the Boy Scouts of America," says Davidson. "It's sad when the state dictates to parents what role models...
...decided to separate the two because the two have different criteria. They tend to cater to different populations," she said. "For private schools, things like endowment are more important...It didn't make sense to mix the data...