Want to Search Earnings for English Majors by College? You Can’t
In The News Piece in The New York Times
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Dec. 1, 2017
The New York Times covered the history of collecting and reporting on outcomes data of graduated students. College Blackout was cited, and Amy Laitinen and Clare McCann were quoted:
The history here is curious, and the New America Foundation, a policy research institute, recounted it in a paper called “College Blackout: How the Higher Education Lobby Fought to Keep Students in the Dark,” a title that probably conveys how the writers, Clare McCann and Amy Laitinen, feel about it.
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One big mystery here is why private colleges would care more about privacy than public or community colleges. New America’s Ms. Laitinen dismisses the concern as a smoke screen by an organization whose members sometimes charge a lot more than their competitors.
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“Unless you’re looking at a more comprehensive full set of data, how are you going to know if students from low-income backgrounds are faring worse than those from high-income backgrounds?” Ms. McCann said.