<p>If one wants to see how much of a rebel, I recommend reading his essay in “College Unranked.”</p>
<p>An excerpt:</p>
<p>“However, the event that stands out as different, as too much, as a turning point, was the moment when the [College] Board made a tactical error, at the meeting those of us present will never forget, when Gaston Caperton announced that we had amassed a surplus of $100 million and then led us off to the top of the World Trade Center to have a party. […] After checking out the views from Windows on the World, word came down that the College Board, the membership organization, would also be a for-profit company, collegeboard.com. […] In short the Board seemed more and more to be about marketing and revenue generating, for a time boldly as a dot.com, but still unrelentingly as a not-for-profit. […] There is no longer a dot com. Does that mean that marketing efforts have subsided? Every time there is a new Board forum, national or regional (and now, with the overwhelming Board presence – short-lived, one hopes – selling goods through NACAC “panels”), new schemes emerge for the selling of more things. A plan to offer lists of students who should be taking APs but who are not, with more rebates built in for schools with more test takers; an “AP diploma” that would pretend to rival a rigorous and coherent curriculum like the IB (more tests sold); and who knows what next? Just today, an announcement arrived, ill-worded and ill-conceived, that the College Board is “rolling out a new brand and is branding – is branding – is branding.” Is this education? Is this English?”</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.educationconservancy.org/collegeunranked.html[/url]”>http://www.educationconservancy.org/collegeunranked.html</a></p>