Boston Globe: USDOE plans higher-ed commission<blockquote
America’s system of colleges and universities is famously decentralized, producing experimentation and variety but making it hard to tackle big-picture issues such as access and affordability on a national scale.
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings plans to announce a major initiative today to address that problem: a commission charged with developing ”a comprehensive national strategy for postsecondary education,” according to remarks in an advance copy of a speech she is expected to deliver at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Note: The US Depart of Education already requires universities with teacher education programs to report scores of their graduates on teacher licensure exams as a condition for receiving Title II funds. Could this commission be the parallel of the National Education Summits of the 1990s that lead to NCLB and the unprecedented intrusion of the federal government into post-secondary education? E.W.R.
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