U.S. college ratings game set for shakeup
Friday, February 3rd, 2012 at
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(Reuters) – An elite California college’s admission this week that it tried to boost its reputation by inflating the test scores of incoming freshmen has stoked a heated debate over the outsized influence and controversial methodology of commercial “best college” lists. But behind the furor over the fraud at Claremont McKenna College is a crescendo of calls from academics, politicians and parents for new rating systems that would measure what really matters: how effectively an institution educates. …
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(Reuters) – Jim and Celeste Durkin plotting when they started investing six years ago in Illinois state’s prepaid college savings plot that they were locking in a bargain price if their daughter Caroline, who is now 10, eventually attended the University of Illinois. That might not be the case. The plot took some risky bets on private equity and ring fence funds and is now 30 percent underfunded and temporarily closed to new investments. …