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SIMPLY PUT, THE BIBLE IS THE MOST influential book ever written. Not only is the Bible the best-selling book of all time, it is the best-selling book of the year every year. In a 1992 survey of English teachers to determine the top-10 required "book-length works" in high school English classes, plays by Shakespeare occupied three spots and the Bible none. And yet, let's compare the two: Beauty of language: Shakespeare, by a nose. Depth of subject matter: toss-up. Breadth of subject matter: the Bible. Numbers published, translated etc: Bible. Number of people martyred...
Earlier this month, Forbes estimated Gates’ wealth at $56 billion. He has led the magazine’s annual survey of billionaires since...
...News has been grading colleges and universities since 1983, and while the magazine mostly uses hard data, the largest single component of the rankings - 25% of a school's overall score - comes from a survey that asks presidents, provosts and admissions directors to assess peer institutions. The reputational rating is "a very legitimate tool for getting at a certain level of knowledge about colleges," says U.S. News executive editor Brian Kelly. "Who better to ask to evaluate colleges than top college administrators...
...Weisbuch, who has asked his faculty to vote this spring on whether to continue filling out the survey ("If it were up to me, we'd quit"), is helping draft the letter urging his peers to take bolder steps collectively. More than one president in the liberal-arts sub-30 neighborhood - Drew this year is tied for 69th - has said higher-ups need to jump ship first. But even the ?lites are worried about taking the plunge. In recent years, a top-ranked school got a new president who wanted to skip the survey. "I was told we would drop...
...What can they offer as an alternative? As U.S. News can attest, more meaningful metrics are hard to come by. Says Kelly: "Whenever we can get better data, we use it." One way to compare educational quality would be if more colleges published the results of the National Survey of Student Engagement, which is administered by Indiana University and is already used internally by hundreds of schools to gauge such things as how much students feel challenged by the curriculum. Yes, student opinion is an imperfect measure, but, says Kent Chabotar, president of Guilford College, "if there's nothing else...