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After Law-School Revolt, Harvard Medical School Will Stop Cooperating With ‘U.S. News’ Rankings

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Ryan, The Boston Globe, Getty Images Harvard Medical School. Like the law-school leaders before him, the Harvard dean George Q. By Francie Diep. Daley said rankings create perverse incentives.

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More Quit ‘U.S. News’ Rankings of Medical, Law Schools

Inside Higher Ed

More medical and law schools have announced that they are leaving the U.S. The medical schools of Cornell University and the University of Chicago are the latest to join the movement. They said, “Our overriding concern is to help address and reduce inequities in medical school education.”

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Adapting to criticism and college opt-outs, U.S. News teases its latest rankings

University Business

Following harsh criticism from the nation’s top medical schools and the Department of Education, U.S. News and World Report is set to release its law and medical school: research rankings next week with an updated methodology and a reliance on public information from schools that now refuse to participate.

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U.S. News rankings out, digital marketing in?

University Business

When Yale Law School opted out in November, a flood of other law schools, such as U.C. Soon enough, medical schools from Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania quit it as well. Harvard’s schools of law and medicine both took the high road. Berkeley and Georgetown, followed suit.

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The U.S. News exodus never happened. How did the top ranking service outlast naysayers?

University Business

Yale Law School’s decision to stop participating with the seminal college ranking service in November prompted a wave of other prestigious graduate programs to follow through; at least a dozen medical schools and 40+ law schools quit participating. News found itself in on the back heel.

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Colorado College to Drop Out of ‘U.S. News’ Rankings

Inside Higher Ed

It continues to equate academic rigor with high school rank and standardized test scores, a metric that creates perverse incentives for schools to provide ‘merit’ aid at the expense of need-based aid. If this occurs, it will not be because our educational quality has changed, but because U.S. Further, U.S.

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The Pros and Cons of Standards-Based Grading

Today's Learner

Reading Time: 2 minutes Standards-based grading (SBG) has been ingrained in the American education system for over a century. It has been a determining factor in students’ admissions to colleges, law schools, medical schools, and even driver’s licenses.