"College Rankings Reformed: The Case for a New Order in Higher Education"

Education Sector, an independent education policy think tank,
has released College Rankings Reformed: The Case for a New
Order in Higher Education. The report analyzes what
it calls the "wealth-exclusivity-fame" paradigm of the U.S.
News rankings and goes on to detail an alternative approach
to rankings, describing "what the new measures can show,
how those measures can be combined into new college rankings,
and why the new rankings would benefit both students and
colleges."

A synopsis of the report appears on the TaxProf Blog
(September 22, 2006).

The Chronicle of Higher Education (9/22) has an article about
the new rankings, "Researcher Proposes Basing College
Rankings on Different Criteria," by Eric Hoover.