December 14, 2007
Big-Name Donors Landed by Anti-Rankings Group
Some admissions insiders think Lloyd Thacker is a hopeless idealist. But that has not stopped several prominent colleges from donating money to his latest cause.
Mr. Thacker, director of the Education Conservancy, wants to build an interactive college-search tool, a free Web site loaded with "educationally sound" information. In November he started a campaign to raise $400,000 to create a prototype.
As of last week, the organization had received a total of $120,000. Princeton
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