Reactions to the Education Dept.’s Retreat on College Ratings

By Andy Thomason. People who watch higher education professionally (or, perhaps more disturbingly, for fun) were not exactly surprised to learn on Thursday morning that the Obama administration had stripped the ratings component out of its college-ratings plan. But the definitive end to what was once a pronounced platform point in President Obama’s higher-education agenda was not going to go unremarked upon. More...