In the Left's merit-less society, there's no difference between excellence and incompetence, writes hgurdon.
Between April-December 2015, 81 Harvard faculty, instructors and researchers donated roughly $131,000 to the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton. rankings — on which it previously held the No. 1 slot — is lamentable, though not because the system is flawless or even notably good.
However reasonable any particular criticism of a ranking system may be, there should be real concern about the fact that objective merit itself is being discarded. Where once a few disquieting straws became apparent in the egalitarian wind, there is now a gale blowing, and a bonfire of reliable standards is raging.
The withdrawal of top universities from ranking systems is connected to a scandal that has exploded in, where high schools that were once proudly the best in America have hidden National Merit awards from their own students.
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