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epaa-295	Clarke, Marguerite	Quantifying Quality: What Can the U.S. News and World Report Rankings Tell us About the Quality of Higher Education?	2002	20	.pdf	application/pdf	8099	310	52	Several reasons account for the larger number of changes in the law ranking's indicators, including U.S. News' responses to the complaints of law schools (who tend to complain more than other schools) and the release of new types of quality-related information by the American Bar Association. In particular, critics have noted that yearly formula changes make it almost impossible to interpret shifts in a school's rank in terms of change in its relative academic quality: a college that is ranked 4 th one year and 7th the next may have had no change in its performance relative to other schools, yet still have moved because of changes in the ranking methodology (Levin, 1999; Machung, 1998; Pellegrini, 1999).	cache/epaa-295.pdf	txt/epaa-295.txt