Grades are the currency of education – teachers give them to students, administrators grade teachers and states often assign grades to schools.
Now U.S. News & World Report is planning to give A through F grades to more than 1,000 teachers’ colleges, and many of the schools are unhappy, marching to the principal’s office to complain the system is unfair.
Numerous education school deans have protested that the ratings program’s methodology is flawed since the program was announced last month. In a letter last week, officials from 35 leading education colleges and graduate schools “ including Columbia, Harvard, Michigan State and Vanderbilt “ denounced an “implied coercion” if they do not cooperate with the ratings.