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A National Dialogue: The Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education

Criticism:

U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings set forth a multi-pronged plan for higher education yesterday, calling for the creation of a database to track students' academic progress, an increase in spending on need-based student aid and increased accountability for colleges.
The most controversial of the changes - and one met with skepticism by officials - is the creation of a Unit Record Database that would create student identification numbers anonymously linking students to their transcripts. Spellings also stressed the need for a greater amount of need-based aid, emphasizing the rising cost of college tuition, and pushed for stronger accountability testing to high schools, proposing that Congress offer matching funds to universities and colleges that collect and make public information about student "learning outcomes."
-Yale News-


A federal plan to improve higher education can't work without more financial aid, the University of Wisconsin-Madison provost said today.
Patrick Farrell was responding to reports that U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings was expected today endorse some of the recommendations of a panel charged with improving higher education. But she is expected not to commit to one major recommendation, increasing Pell Grants.
She called the panel together last fall to create a "comprehensive national strategy" for higher education.
The commission finalized its report in August. The only member of the panel not to sign the report was David Ward, president of the American Council on Education and a former UW-Madison chancellor.
-Capitol Times Madison WI-.


WASHINGTON // Education Secretary Margaret Spellings launched plans yesterday to redefine the college experience, promising less confusion and more results for families. Spellings said she would make a handful of changes on her own and start building support for some of the more sweeping ideas that came from her higher-education commission. Chief among them is the creation of an information-sharing system, opening up greater review of how colleges and universities are performing. It would require vast data collection on individual students, raising privacy concerns in some corners.
-National Digest-

It sounds like we're about to get a, "NoChild Left Behind" program for Colleges
and Universities since The Bush Administration has done so great for K - 12
education. Actually what democrats need to do is take over one of the
Republican"s earlier initiatives to eliminate Education as a Cabinet Post,
close most of the Education Department's Bureauracy and send all the education money they are collecting and wasting to the states in the form of block grants.

That's what they asked her on NPR was colleges headed to testing accountability like
bush Pan in High-schools and grade schools. She basically said yes.
So RLA again your perception is flawless. That is exactly where it will be heading.

Bush policies strike and strike again why aren't more people saying NO MORE!