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Wednesday, December 28, 2005

ANOTHER RESPONSE TO
DECLINING RATES OF LITERACY
AMONG COLLEGE GRADUATES


The Christian Science Monitor, editorializing about the now-notorious college graduate literacy study, mentions that “a 19-member national panel, set up by the secretary of education and known as the Commission on the Future of Higher Education, is looking seriously at recommending that colleges accepting federal money be held accountable for their educational results.” Reasonably enough, the CSM also argues that “federal and state taxpayers … should be entitled to know which colleges efficiently and effectively use government aid to achieve the best results. [The government should] put money into institutions that achieve basic benchmarks in the quality of graduates produced. Schools that object can decline federal money.”
Posted at: 12/28/2005 09:05:00 PM