“When President Obama has said, “We
have the best universities,” he has not meant: “Our universities are, on
average, the best” — even though that’s what many people hear. He means, “Of
the best universities, most are ours.” The distinction is important.”
“International university rankings…
have little to do with education. Instead, they focus on universities as
research institutions, using metrics such as the number of Nobel Prize winners
on staff and journal articles published. A university could stop enrolling
undergraduates with no effect on its score.
We see K-12 schools and colleges
differently because we’re looking at two different yardsticks: the academic
performance of the whole population of students in one case, the research
performance of a small number of institutions in the other.”
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