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Data on U.S. College Degrees Called Misleading

Misleading statistics put other nations in better light, researcher argues.When comparing the United States’ higher education system with those of other developed nations, a new report says, policymakers are misreading the data and relying on flawed statistics. That conclusion comes in a report, “The Spaces Between Numbers: Getting International Data on Higher Education Straight,” that was scheduled to be published this week by the Institute for Higher Education Policy, a research and policy group based in Washington. The findings are important because they call into question many of the statistics that are commonly used to make the case that the...