http://blog.dailycolonial.com/newsblog/2007/08/17/gw-slips-in-2008-college-rankings/ The latest from the newsroom, including what we're working on for tomorrow's edition. Thu, 17 May 2012 06:41:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 http://blog.dailycolonial.com/newsblog/2007/08/17/gw-slips-in-2008-college-rankings/#comment-65696 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:48:26 +0000 http://blog.dailycolonial.com/newsblog/2007/08/17/gw-slips-in-2008-college-rankings/#comment-65696 frankly, these rankings are why GW throws so much damn money at merit aid for rich kids and why the campus is so hostile to students from lower income backgrounds frankly, these rankings are why GW throws so much damn money at merit aid for rich kids and why the campus is so hostile to students from lower income backgrounds

]]> http://blog.dailycolonial.com/newsblog/2007/08/17/gw-slips-in-2008-college-rankings/#comment-65695 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:47:29 +0000 http://blog.dailycolonial.com/newsblog/2007/08/17/gw-slips-in-2008-college-rankings/#comment-65695 I'm sick of the rankings undermining American competitiveness by incentivizing institutional behavior that privileges the privileged, undermines equality and fairness, and diverts schools'; priorities from educating students to fudging figures. Am I just ranting here? Maybe. But I try to back it up with some more meat in my op-ed on the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zach-marks/rise-up-against-the-ranki_b_60917.html" rel="nofollow">Huffington Post</a> today. I’m sick of the rankings undermining American competitiveness by incentivizing institutional behavior that privileges the privileged, undermines equality and fairness, and diverts schools’; priorities from educating students to fudging figures. Am I just ranting here? Maybe. But I try to back it up with some more meat in my op-ed on the Huffington Post today.

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