petersuberVery glad to see this:
Harvard Law School will stop participating in the U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/11/17/harvard-law-school-drops-out-of-us-news-rankings/
Update. Five major US law schools have now stopped participating in the US News World and World Report rankings:
#Yale, #Harvard, #Berkeley, #Columbia, and #Georgetown (apparently in this order).
Ted Spence@petersuber I read up on the story - do we believe this is about treating poor applicants fairly in the rankings? Is this just a case where applying metrics to something haphazardly was worse than not having metrics at all?
It would be nice to know if a school leaves people in debt to get their education; but if measuring that artificially is just a measurement of inherited poverty I agree with their choice to leave the ratings system.
Bathsheba Blueinformation about student debt, job placement, graduation rates etc should still be available by the schools. The ranking surveys were not the chief reason for collecting these data points.
Rosanita@inklings @Tedspence @petersuber Isn’t that reported to the US Dept of Education? It’s still a dataset.
@rosanita @Tedspence @petersuber
Yes that’s my meaning. The ranking surveys aren’t needed in order to have provide helpful metrics. In fact it’s probably less bc the idea you can reduce everything to one simple ranking is problematic in itself.
Yes that’s my meaning. The ranking surveys aren’t needed in order to have provide helpful metrics. In fact it’s probably less bc the idea you can reduce everything to one simple ranking is problematic in itself.