Education Dept. Considers Creating Not 1 But 2 College-Ratings Systems

“The Education Department, under continued fire over its planned college-rating system, is considering creating two systems, an agency official said at a policy briefing here on Monday,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports.

“The first ratings system would be geared toward consumers and be based on raw outcomes metrics. The second would be geared toward policy makers and researchers, and would rely on metrics adjusted for student and institutional characteristics, the official told attendees at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s annual policy briefing. Only the second system would be used to measure accountability.

The shift appeared designed to answer criticism that the department was trying to do too much with one system.”