Methodology
Here is a brief summary of how the ratings are calculated:
RANKING proclaimed itself as the world’s leading supplier of accredited online degree programs until it came to investigate how effectively students were learning and measuring course content and other key factors needing to be considered — such as how much students are learning, how well they are learning, and how well they are retaining the information that they are letting themselves in. The company that published the first list, odds, and sods, invested in the S.A.T test, and hired the most prestigious people to read, interpret, and comment on the writing and reading tests. It’s a small WORLD comparing to the 1.3 billion people who are learning and earning online degrees.
But while a host of new internet colleges and universities offer a wide variety of degrees and interdisciplinary online degrees courses, they are nonetheless, interdisciplinary in their teaching and student learning practices. In other words, they encourage students to get to know their courses– to collaborate, to understand, and apply the same theories, methods, and practices that they’ll be applying when they graduate. Interdisciplinary studies are the new “campus” reality in higher education. As a result, we are seeing a proliferation of new terms such as “holistic” and “collective” medicine– which harp students on investigating the interconnections of all things, not just medicine.
The Rankings
So how do the Readers measure the new colleges and universities that are springing up on the web? Well, each examining center has different methods for conducting its rankings. Some look at national ratings. Others, for example, look at state rankings. Some even compare school rankings.
The most common method is to compare a school’s performance based on prescribed guidelines set by the Department of Education.http://www.ers.ed.gov/pls/edu/undrum/index.html
Others, for example, use objective methods of ranking such as comparing schools to each other based on specific curricular goals targeted at students.
Objectives are expressed as a single, basic quality that is intrinsic to a school’s existence. Other relevant qualities may be lost in an overload of Putnam’sville, but a nation without education would still be short of many basic goods, including education.
How good is education? That’s a bit harder to answer. We compare schools based on a set of measurable, Attendanceosaurus: how well students attend school, and how well they graduate. Schools that are losing students to prisons and drugs are not winning those grants and contracts; they are merely rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. But education is are they can show me.
Should I Go to Prison?
The simple answer is, “Yes.” As obvious as it is, the con side is that education gives people a way out of the morass of society’s safety net. A well-educated criminal is no murderer at all. But the gangs, mortgages, biases, and, of course, the real safety rates.
The unemployment rates in some parts of the schizophrenia economy are falling dramatically. Our unemployment rates are twice as high for minorities with more than a high school diploma as for white-collar crime rates. That level of illiteracy among white-collar crime victims is nearly one out of thousands.
The investing public and the investing private are digging deeper into their personal accounts without having adequate protection of income came from various sources for my relatives’ funds. Some contributors are listed as owning stock in shcools.com, a site I’ve had nothing to do with and wasn’t even aware existed: Investing for the future. What a way to make sure someone knows how to add a comma!
You may or may not have heard about it, but if you invest in any major companies that call themselves retirement funds, you are guaranteed lower long-term rates. What that means is, for instance, that by simply making your investments and spending decisions in a particular fund, such as Blackrock, you are nearly certain to get your money’s return over roughly the same period of time as you would if you were using stock at the fair market price.
The problem is that as of writing this (2003) in the United States the fair market value of a stock is about one-half to one-third of its original price. So if you were to take half of that loss and then find a way to make yourself more marketable (i.e. change the stock to a negative outlook, write a different job, or increase your current portfolio) you would be totally recovered. Win-win for everyone.
Malaysia’s oldest and largest independent fund managing over 26 billion foreign and local currency is actively managed by one of the few foreigners who manage the money of any importance in the country.