US News and World Ratings Rightfully Called Out for Commodification of College Education.
Although the term “commodification” never appears in this Washington Post article decrying the US News and World Report rating “system”, the article describes how Ronald Reagan and his neoliberal enablers in the Democratic Party turned college attendance into a game based on free spending on wasteful frills. The essay concludes with this question:
The result has been ever-increasing tuition, piles of student debt and colleges and universities without massive endowments — or that try to tread a different path — struggling to survive. It has also left academia with an open question: Has all the spending increased educational quality, or simply created a more expensive, one-size-fits-all college experience, one that perverts what academia ought to be?
Readers of this blog know my answer.
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