Sometimes No (US) News Is Good News - Part 12 {external opinion}

Remember the cascade of law schools deciding not to cooperate with the US News & World Report rankings? Eventually, some medical schools also joined the boycott movement. Now we have a high authority - the secretary of education - endorsing the movement. From Inside Higher Ed:

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said Wednesday colleges should not worship at “the false altar” of U.S. News & World Report’s rankings. He made the remarks in a speech that opened a conference in Cambridge, Mass., organized by the law schools of Harvard and Yale Universities to discuss student needs for information about the law schools they want to attend. The two law schools announced in November that they would no longer participate in the U.S. News rankings, which set off a movement among law schools, medical schools and two colleges that serve undergraduates to stop participating in the magazine’s rankings.

Cardona’s remarks were about all colleges, not just law schools...

Full story at https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2023/03/02/secretary-cardona-harshly-criticizes-us-news-rankings.