February 22, 2016 - U.S. News & World Report has been compiling a list of best American Colleges and Universities since 1983. This ranking is based on the data collected

October 4, 2024 - The QS World University Rankings ... annually since 2004. In 2024, they ranked 1500 universities, with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Imperial College London, University of Oxford, Harvard University and University of Cambridge taking the top 5 spots. The QS rankings should not be confused with the Times Higher Education World University ...

October 15, 2019 - States and the federal government have long provided substantial financial support for higher education, but in recent years, their respective levels of contribution have shifted significantly.

June 29, 2024 - In 2014, the country spent 6.2% ... per-pupil spending was double the OECD average (ranking 2nd), and the U.S. education sector consumed 6 percent of the U.S. GDP (ranking 6th). From 1960 through 2017, per-pupil spending in public kindergartens, primary schools, and secondary ...

September 25, 2024 - Find out about the schools that misreported data to U.S. News.

July 5, 2024 - News is entering the international college and university rankings area that is already "dominated by three major global university rankings": the QS World University Rankings, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and the Academic Ranking of World Universities.

April 9, 2024 - About the U.S. News Education Rankings Methodologies.

February 19, 2024 - Stanford won the Division I Directors' ... Texas at Austin has won the two Cups awarded since the end of Stanford's streak. American college and university ranking systems have drawn criticism from within and outside higher education in Canada and the United States....

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There are several different opinions ... rankings. (Photo Credit: MD Duran / Unsplash) The United States education system had been believed to be the best until economists realized in the 1980s that student’s test scores had been declining sharply since the mid 1960s...

May 10, 2024 - Florida is ranked tenth in the pre-K through 12th grade subcategory.

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General government expenditure on education (current, capital, and transfers) is expressed as a percentage of total general government expenditure on all sectors (including health, education, social services, etc.). It includes expenditure funded by transfers from international sources to ...

October 21, 2024 - U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges ... by U.S. News & World Report in 1983. It has been described as the most influential institutional ranking in the country. The Best Colleges rankings have raised controversy, and they have been denounced by several education ...

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September 24, 2024 - Find out which data is used in our undergraduate rankings and how it is weighted.

ElKevbo, any suggestions on which scholarly sources to use? In the popular press, Malcolm Gladwell's article (Gladwell, Malcolm (7 February 2011). "The Trouble with College Rankings". The New Yorker.) is the best I've come across, but Gladwell certainly isn't an education scholar, so I'm sure ...

June 27, 2018 - K-12 In the 1980s, economists puzzled by a decline in the growth of U.S. productivity realized that American schools had taken a dramatic turn for the worse. After rising every year for fifty years, student scores on a variety of achievement tests dropped sharply in 1967.