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327. What Actually Makes A College The Best? feat. Colin Diver
Does the way we rank colleges prioritize status over educational quality or the public good? Colin Diver is the Charles A. Heimbold, Jr., Professor of Law and Economics, former dean at the University of Pennsylvania, and former president of Reed College. His book, Breaking Ranks: How the Rankings Industry Rules Higher Education and What to Do about It, explores the methodologies of U.S. News and others to evaluate higher education institutions.Colin and Greg discuss the pitfalls of college rankings, how they fail to measure important aspects of education, how they distort the incentives of…
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