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• Updates to 2 Schools' 2015 Best Colleges Rankings Data
• Wyoming Attorney General: Parents Have NO CHOICE But To Submit Kids To Standardized Tests
• Why the White House Fudged the Numbers on Student Loans

Updates to 2 Schools' 2015 Best Colleges Rankings Data Posted: 08 Oct 2014 07:15 AM PDT Two schools -- Lindenwood University in Missouri and Rollins College in Florida -- recently advised U.S. News that they submitted inflated data that were used in the 2015 Best Colleges rankings.

Wyoming Attorney General: Parents Have NO CHOICE But To Submit Kids To Standardized Tests Posted: 08 Oct 2014 05:18 AM PDT The Wyoming attorney general has officially advised the Wyoming Department of Education that it is illegal for parents to opt their own children out of statewide standardized assessment tests given in taxpayer-funded public schools.

Why the White House Fudged the Numbers on Student Loans Posted: 08 Oct 2014 02:00 AM PDT Eager to broadcast some good news approaching the midterm elections, the Obama administration recently announced a welcome dip in student loan defaults, from 14.7 percent for the 2010 cohort (loans taken out in that year) to 13.7 percent for 2011. Policymakers, alarmed about how our trillion-dollar student loan burden and soaring default rates are undermining our economic growth, cheered the report. In keeping with a White House that talks a good game on transparency but that is cloaked in secrecy, the Department of Education moved the goalposts at the last minute, changing how the default rates were calculated and thus sparing some colleges from tough penalties. The academic world has been anxiously awaiting the Department of Education's annual announcement on student loan defaults.

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