Posted on 12/14/2014 12:42:51 PM PST by Olog-hai
A controversial Obama administration rating system for colleges and universities already is being scrutinized ahead of its late-December rollout by educators who claim the government’s goal of more transparency could come at the expense of schools that don't happen to fit the ivory tower model.
The federal government, with its long-awaited rating system, is trying to hold the country’s 7,000 colleges and universities accountable not only to taxpayers, but also to prospective students trying to weigh the pros and cons of different institutions.
But it has many in the education community on edge. Several colleges and education associations have launched a preemptive PR strike against the plan, though the details haven’t yet been released. …
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And what part of the Constitution covers this?
Higher the lunatic liberal fringe, higher the rating.
Accountable ,Obama favorite word , but only for you and not for him
I have a pretty good guess of the rating for Hillsdale.
You got it.
I anxiously await the establishment of the FBWTF (Federal Bottom-Wiping Task Force), as none of us could possibly cope with any sort of personal issues without regulation and guidance from a large federal bureaucracy.
Risk jail time for violating the ban on assault toilet paper.
My first thought also. I’m still looking for the school lunch thing and now this.
This is just the result of the Colleges making so much money they hit the Demonic-rat radar. Fear not; Mr. University President, you can obtain whatever rating you want with a donation to the Demonic-rat party.
And..., we all know just how the "most transparent administration" has lived up to its many promises!
Good point.
And why is Obama dealing with this when the country has so many other serious issues on our collective plate right now? Last I looked, ranking colleges and universities is not mentioned in the Constitution nor is the public clambering for a solution to something that isn't broken.
This is just another attempt to get the federal government's fingers in everything in society and control the population and their institutions. Just more big government.
Why the Sam Hill IS there a White House college rating?
With student loans and this, the Federal Government now controls “higher education.”
Harry Truman never went to college (although there is now a university named for him)--he was a mixed bag but better than any of the other Democrats since Cleveland.
Harry Truman never went to college (although there is now a university named for him)--he was a mixed bag but better than any of the other Democrats since Cleveland.
Must be $$$$$ in it for the feds. And coercion.
As the president of a liberal arts college which will never take federal funds, the US Department of “Education” can shove its rating system up its rear end.
The college rating system will be based on employability. Not potential earnings, but jobs.
This all plays into Commin Core, the plan to make 11th and 12th grades optional. AND THE FEDERALIZED FIRST RESPONDER AND POLICE UNION.
The idea is to degrade the value of education in favor of job training. The Seattle actually passed a resolutution saying that it was discriminatory for companies to requir a degree for a job that can be learned on the job because morevWhite kids go to college than Black due to White Privilege.
Law enforcement jobs are prime candidates for this new affirmative action. I am told that in Connecticut, graduates of the police academy are washed out due to the results of their IQ test their IQs were deemed too high.
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