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College Scorecard: With victories like these, who needs failures?

By Phil Hill. Posted on August 24, 2016

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The Department of Education’s new tool for evaluating colleges is…uh…not so great.

College Scorecard: ED quietly adds in 700 missing colleges

By Phil Hill. Posted on February 6, 2016

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It’s worth giving credit where credit is due, and the US Department of Education (ED) has fixed a problem that Russ Poulin and I pointed out where they had previously left ~700 colleges out of the College Scorecard. When the College Scorecard was announced, Russ noticed a handful of missing schools. When I did the […]

College Scorecard Article Published In Washington Post

By Phil Hill. Posted on October 16, 2015

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I have written several posts looking at the new College Scorecard and its inherent flaws in the data, often starting with observations from Russ Poulin at WCET. Today Susan Svrluga, education reporter at the Washington Post, posted a new article co-written by me and Russ and titled “Hundreds of colleges missing from Obama’s College Scorecard?”. The […]

College Scorecard Problem Gets Worse: One in three associate’s degree institutions are not included

By Phil Hill. Posted on September 16, 2015

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Late yesterday I posted about the Education Department (ED) new College Scorecard and how it omits a large number of community colleges based on an arbitrary metric. In particular, the Education Department (ED) is using a questionable method of determining whether an institution is degree-granting rather than relying on the IPEDS data source. In a nutshell, […]

17% Of Community Colleges Are Not Included In College Scorecard

By Phil Hill. Posted on September 15, 2015

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In addition to the highly-misleading usage of ‘first-time full-time’ qualification for official graduate rates reported in the College Scorecard, there appears to be another major issue with the data. In particular, the Education Department (ED) is using a questionable method of determining whether an institution is degree-granting rather than relying on the IPEDS data source. […]

College Scorecard: An example from UMUC on fundamental flaw in the data

By Phil Hill. Posted on September 14, 2015

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Russ Poulin at WCET has a handy summary of the new College Scorecard produced by the Education Department (ED) and the White House. This is a “first read” given the scorecard’s Friday release, but it is quite valuable since Russ participated on an ED Data Panel related to the now-abandoned Ratings System, the precursor to the […]

Alternate Ledes for CUNY Study on Raising Graduation Rates

By Phil Hill. Posted on March 1, 2015

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Last week MDRC released a study on the City University of New York’s (CUNY) Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP) with near breathless terms. ASAP was well implemented. The program provided students with a wide array of services over a three-year period, and effectively communicated requirements and other messages. ASAP substantially improved students’ academic outcomes over […]
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