White House Replaces Abandoned Ratings Plan
Here is the new rating plan.
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports.
White House Unveils College Scorecard That Replaces Its Scuttled Ratings Plan
The White House on Saturday unveiled the new college-information website that it developed once it abandoned its ill-fated plan to rate colleges.
The new College Scorecard site, which replaces an older one of the same name, features a more modern and user-friendly design and some new information about colleges not previously available on the predecessor site or from other federal data sources. Notably, for each college, it includes measurements of students’ earnings six and 10 years after they started at a college and data showing the proportion of the college’s students who are repaying their student loans.
Most of the rest of the information on the new Scorecard is already available in existing federal databases, such as College Navigator.
The big reveal for the Scorecard was designed for maximum political effect. It came on the same day President Obama devoted his weekly radio address to a discussion of the Scorecard and two days before he was to join the education secretary, Arne Duncan, on Monday in Iowa, to meet with high-school students and parents to discuss college access and affordability.
White House Unveils College Scorecard That Replaces Its Scuttled Ratings Plan (The Chronicle of Higher Education)