When I saw the title of Bob Morse's recent blog posting–"U.S. News Takes Steps to Stop Law Schools From Manipulating the Rankings"–I thought, at last, U.S. News was going to do something about the massive fraud on the public in which they are now deeply implicated. But, no, this is just tinkering with trivia. When will U.S. News commit real resources to auditing the data schools report? When will U.S. News change the criteria to make deceit and 'massaging' the data impossible?
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