Annie Lowrey’s article published in the Slate targets the Department of Education and the American government. Published in 2011, Lowrey and a couple of others quoted in this article are very effective in populating positive votes for development of a College Scorecard.1 But the actual requirement of a College Scorecard has not been discussed efficiently.
How do we reason the necessity of anything? By questioning its efficacy and productivity, substantiating the need by documenting physical or virtual need expressed by the provider as well as consumer. These are the methods primarily. Secondary methods could be comparative evaluation. Lowrey’s methods of determining the necessity of a college scorecard seem secondary to me.
Annie Lowrey is an avid writer. Being educated from Harvard in English Literature, she has developed and researched the topic and laid out the facts and figures very beautifully for the audience. Stating the
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By this kind of comparison, Annie is trying to prove that the information provided in a college label is all that is important to decide a career-making college or university. Reductionism of information or limiting it to one sheet of paper also misleads the future students. Just because a fuel efficiency label serves a good purpose does not mean that labeling schools would also. Such reductionism trumps institutional mission, sound faculty judgment about student learning, assessment of student outcomes, etc. This practice would generalize two very dissimilar colleges on its points of scoring and place them at virtually interchangeable positions in the scorecard. Such generalization of data would deform the diversity of colleges in the American education system. In the end, A scorecard would be compared to a Ninja blender that every household can buy and whirl up information into different recipes. Unfortunately, deciding on a college is not like blending juice in 30