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Give because any gift, regardless of size, counts as alumni participation and elevates GW’s rankings in publications like U.S. News and World Report, raising the value of our degrees.
While we are pleased that U.S. News will not change our ranking, Claremont McKenna College continues to focus on our academic mission and on fulfilling our obligation to integrity and responsible leadership.
It’s not enough to just measure inputs, the way the U.S. News-style rankings mostly do ... Colleges and universities have to be able to provide prospective parents with data that will give them some sense of how much their students learn. There has to be some way to reward schools that actually do provide learning and punish schools that don’t.More quotes »
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Those Greedy, Often Unionized Bain Capital Investors
It's important for Americans to understand on whose behalf Bain Capital is investing ("Obama to Step Up Bain Ads," U.S. News, May 26). When retail or institutional investors invest in a public company by purchasing its stock, they become a shareholder of 4:36 PM from Wall Street Journal Read more »
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Even Dems Running Away from Obama Agenda
Artur Davis delivers a speech at the 2008 Democrat Convention (Source: Wikimedia Commons) U.S. Representative Artur Davis seconded the nomination of Barack Obama for president in 2008 at the Democratic Party convention in Denver, Colorado. Now, almost fo 2:14 PM from Dakota Voice Read more »
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Trade Disputes Sans Contributions
The article "Tariff Breaks: Tax Cuts or Earmarks?" (U.S. News, May 25) presents a false choice for Congress: Break our earmark ban or allow tariffs to rise on products necessary to American companies. Thankfully, there's a better way that will result in from Wall Street Journal Read more »
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U.S. News ranks nation’s high schools on science and math
Top-flight Stuyvesant High School cracked the top 10 of U.S. News and World Report’s list of the best science and math high schools in the country. Often considered the most prestigious public high school in the city, Stuyvesant came in at No. 8 in the n from New York Daily News Read more »
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Adjusting the Best High Schools Rankings for Government Data Errors
After the online release of the U.S. News 2012 Best High Schools rankings on May 8, it became evident that some of the data that U.S. News obtained from the federal government was incorrect for a small number of public high schools. The data came from th from U.S. News & World Report Read more »
