By Jonah Newman. The most contentious data that might find their way into the Obama administration’s college-ratings plan are conspicuously missing from the Education Department’s current data-collection tools: postgraduate wages.
At a symposium held by the department several weeks ago, experts were told that they weren’t debating the “if” of the proposed Postsecondary Institution Ratings System, just the “how.” Nevertheless, many still questioned whether it was appropriate to use postgraduate wage data to compare colleges in the first place. More...