Time – Jacob Davidson
“The Obama administration’s plan to officially rate colleges appears to be cancelled…In a blog posting Thursday, Deputy Under Secretary for Postsecondary Education Jamienne Studley said the department would be releasing a tool this summer that will “provide students with more data than ever before to compare college costs and outcomes” in order to “Help students to reach their own conclusions about a college’s value.” The new system will still provide information on colleges, but refrain from assigning a ranking. That policy differs starkly from the president’s original plan, announced in August of 2013, to develop a rating system for colleges and tie federal financial aid to each institution’s performance.”(more)