{"id":224,"date":"2004-12-07T15:17:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-07T21:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danflies.wordpress.com\/2004\/12\/07\/washingtonpost-com-finding-the-best-not-the-best-known-colleges"},"modified":"2004-12-07T15:17:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-07T21:17:00","slug":"washingtonpost-com-finding-the-best-not-the-best-known-colleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/washingtonpost-com-finding-the-best-not-the-best-known-colleges\/","title":{"rendered":"washingtonpost.com: Finding the Best, Not the Best-Known, Colleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where does your school really rank?  Does your school really want you to know how well it teaches students? <\/p>\n<p>Read this interesting article and find out if your school is letting you know how it really does its job.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn\/A53936-2004Nov16?language=printer\">washingtonpost.com: Finding the Best, Not the Best-Known, Colleges<\/a>: &#8220;Two years ago, as I was finishing a book debunking the myth of Ivy League academic superiority, it occurred to me that I wasn&#8217;t offering any useful alternatives. I presented the research showing that ancient universities with big names don&#8217;t add anything to their students lives that they cannot get elsewhere. It is the students&#8217; characters, forged before they ever got to college, that make them successful, not high ranks for their alma maters on the U.S. News &amp; World Report list.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where does your school really rank? Does your school really want you to know how well it teaches students? Read this interesting article and find out if your school is letting you know how it really does its job. washingtonpost.com: Finding the Best, Not the Best-Known, Colleges: &#8220;Two years ago, as I was finishing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}