Why is David Hawkins critical of the rankings?

· Rankings do not use mathematics to measure colleges.

· Institutions misreport data or manipulate their ranking.

· Rankings provide unfair comparisons between colleges.

· Lower ranked schools have a larger number of applicants.

IV. Fill in the gaps with suitable words given below:

a) Value

b) Personal

c) Programs

d) Information

e) Colleges

f) Campus

Jeffrey Stahl agrees that rankings have limited 1) _____. In his job as a counselor at Yorktown High School in Virginia, he talks with students about 2) ______.

Stahl says choosing a college is a very 3) _____ decision. He said that the rankings “can be helpful,” but some students place too much attention on the name of a school and its position in rankings.

“So much about the 4) ______ environment, students, professors, cannot be shown just by ranking,” Stahl said. He suggests that families use the ranking 5) _______ as a starting point. Then, they should widen their search, make their own list, and go see the colleges for themselves.

But David Hawkins is critical of the college rankings. He is with the National Association for College Admission Counseling. He told VOA that rankings “are not mathematically proven to measure the quality of any single college, much less to provide comparisons between colleges.”

Hawkins said lower ranked schools may have difficulty getting students interested in their 6) ________.

V. Put the words in the right order to form sentences:

1. ratings list sometimes lesser-known The schools.

2. rankings The have ethical to known create problems been.

3. provides education guidance on It higher to and their students families.

4. Forbes its college published ratings 2019 for.

5. its students place Some too attention name of on a school the and position in rankings much.

6. All the had similar experts advice students looking for for the college right.

7. California The included the well-known five University of at Berkeley.

8.when school students lists as guides considering where reference use to continue High the their education.

 

VI.Make the nouns from the following verbs and make your own sentences with these nouns:

1)to rank, 2) to use, 3) to choose, 4) to consider, 5) to publish

VII. Spelling: Unjumble the words

1) Cirilapp

2) Seunocorl

3) Almaupiten

4) Ategarud

5) Amicorecml

 

VIII. Translate from Russian into English:

 Дорогое вложение, организации высшего образования, другая важная информация, продолжить обучение, бывший директор, придавать значение, расширять поиск, отправная точка, проводить сравнение, подводные камни.

 

 

IX. Fill in the table and share your ideas about the information from the article with the class.

What I knew	What I know now	What I want to know

X. Work out a dialogue with the partner (s) to discuss the necessity of University rankings. The following phrases of Appendix 1, Section I might be helpful:

XI. Surfing the Internet.