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...truth. Generally, targeting the rankings doesn't hurt students. If schools are targeting ranking factors like improving graduation rates and improving freshman retention and paying faculty more money and having more small classes and fewer large classes and having faculty with better credentials, those are all U.S. News ranking factors, and the students are going to benefit from that...
School may still be out for the summer, but all eyes are on college this week: the 2010 U.S. News & World Report college rankings hit stands today, with Harvard and Princeton tying for first place among national universities and Williams ranking first among liberal-arts colleges. TIME spoke to Robert Morse, director of data research at U.S. News and a two-decade veteran of the controversial rankings, about how the list is put together and how it could be better, plus a look at this year's rising stars. (Read about the backlash against college rankings...
...reputation survey. Generally speaking, our response rate did tick up a little bit this year - it went to 48% from 46% - so there's some indication that this boycott [among schools that are refusing to fill out the reputation survey] is losing some of its potency. But U.S. News is not expecting people to have knowledge or be able to rate each school in its category. It's based on the premise that since we have a big enough respondent base, enough people have some knowledge of enough schools that we get a statistically significant number of respondents for each...
...lines of the reputation survey, but to assess some of the things you're talking about? You need the schools to cooperate. We would have to get access to enough students to have a statistically significant sample. I personally don't think schools are going to work with U.S. News on something like that...
...attacks are happening, so no one knows where it is safe to go vote," he says, gesturing at his empty polling station. Observers and volunteers outnumbered voters 20 to 1. Early in the day, nearly 100 men and half as many women had voted, he says, but since the news of the first bombing, the number of voters had slowed to a trickle, even though the immediate neighborhood had remained untouched by violence. (See pictures of the Afghan presidential election...