12 April 2007

US News College Rankings - boycott?

As a parent, I find this news interesting:

A revolt is brewing among college presidents against the influential college rankings put out each year by U.S. News & World Report.

Dozens of schools have recently refused to fill out surveys used to calculate ranks, and efforts are now afoot for a collective boycott.


When I was applying for schools, I perused the college rankings, but they didn't really sway me. I found the information on each school useful: all the data was in one concise spot and allowed me to compare different schools based on the data I was interested in, not just the rankings. If you're not angling to apply for the top 5 or 10 schools overall, does it really make that much difference if the school is ranked 20 or 30? It would be a shame to lose the resource of all the other data in the report, but I wouldn't miss the ranking themselves.

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04 April 2007

Stay at home dad study - we're happy

A study done by the University of Texas says that stay at home dads are slightly happier than other dads, says an article at babble (a newish online mag for "urban parents").

Surprised? I'm not. I'm thrilled that I get to stay at home with my son on Fridays. And while I'm only a part-time stay-at-home dad, I'm a full-time work-at-home dad, so I get the benefit of getting to spend mornings and evenings with him, and to be here on the day that the wife is staying home with the boy. It's a great situation for the stability of our family unit.

There's some other stuff in there about stay-at-home dads' attitudes about gender roles that seem obvious and also unsuprising. Do the rest of male Americans who are not stay-at-home dads really have those outdated views of "the home is the woman's place" that would make these results remarkable? I know there are some Neanderthals out there, but really? This is the 21st century!

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