The Other College Guide - A Road Map to the Right School for You
Jane Sweetland has worked with students of all ages for over twenty years, first as a middle and high school teacher then as a university dean of enrollment. She has a master’s degree in counseling and a doctorate in education and she knows the ins and outs of campus processes that are too often a barrier for students. With the compassion of a counselor and the authority of a dean, she answers many students’ questions in The Other College Guide and looks forward to answering yours through her blog. Your nam
The Department of Education is weighing into the whole ratings game and there’s a lot of hullabaloo about that because it’s complicated. The feds have been working on it for over a year and a half and what they have, the Postsecondary Institution Ratings System (PIRS) is still pretty vague and incomplete . Still, the conversation is out there—and that’s good for you because you should be able to know a whole lot of things about the college you plan to attend before you plunk down a dime.
I’m just going to tackle one piece of this messiness here: What you should know about rankings, including all the others and ours is that none of them attempt to measure what students are learning , which is a pretty gigantic hole when you think about it. It’s tricky, of course, and you know that when you look around a classroom: Some students have a natural aptitude or maybe they already knew the stuff, some are pretty clearly working really hard to get from 0 to speed, others never show up. So who’s lea
The Other College Guide - A Road Map to the Right School for You