Can Obama --- or anyone else --- take the rank out of rankings?

A woman in a bikini at a Beauty pageant 7 March 2009 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

US News & World Report:  the beauty pageant few of us like but none can ignore… has it improved American higher education?
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/06/03/what-would-it-really-take-be-us-news-top-20#sthash.hp5YIixf.dpbs
I doubt it.  But you be the judge.

Then ask yourself: can Washington do any better?
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/26/us/colleges-rattled-as-obama-presses-rating-system.html?_r=0

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