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In September, President Obama announced the College Scorecard which gave a lot of data on the nation’s colleges and universities, but left out information on the graduation rates of low-income students who receive federal aid. Now, that information–long demanded by Congress–has been released, but there’s just one problem with the data: it’s wrong. The figures released by the U.S. Department of Education focused on student’s who receive Pell grants–federal aid to student’s of low-income families to assist in college tuition or related costs–and whether those students actually go on to graduate or not. The same data used to show the...

Hillsdale, Grove City colleges among those snubbed by Department of Education The new “College Scorecard” released by the Department of Education and the White House that ranks universities excluded several institutions widely considered among the best conservative colleges in the nation: Hillsdale and Grove City colleges. The feds claimed Hillsdale, which offers a traditional liberal arts curriculum grounded in Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman traditions, does not grant enough bachelor degrees to be ranked, while Grove City – a staunchly Christian institution – was snubbed because it refuses federal funding. The “College Scorecard” was released last week and is a collection of...