By John Sandman “With the year winding down, the Obama Administration took the wraps off its College Rating Plan—perhaps so it would have something to show for what was a significant call out in the State of the Union address,...

By Lydia Wheeler “GOP lawmakers are calling the Department of Education’s plan to rate colleges ‘unnecessary’ and ‘a fool’s errand.’ The Department of Education released a framework Friday for a college rating system of two-year and four-year institutions that will...

By Kelly Field “The college-ratings plan that the Education Department is releasing on Friday can best be described as incremental. The plan, the product of more than a year of discussion and debate, is less a proposal than a progress report—an update...

By Allie Bidwell “Nearly a year and a half after President Barack Obama tasked his administration with developing a system to rate colleges based on access, affordability and quality, a draft of the proposal was unveiled Friday morning. Rather than...