School rankings: Why even the better ones are questionable

By Valerie Strauss. A new report about what people Any regular reader of this blog knows that I am not in love with school rankings that claim to have real authority. In the following piece, Matthew Di Carlo does a good job explaining the problems with even some of the better listing. Di Carlo is a senior fellow at the non-profit Albert Shanker Institute in Washington, D.C. This originally appeared on the Shanker Blog. Read more...