By Peter Wood
Last Thursday, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings held a "summit" in Washington of 250 leaders from business and academe. Dubbed "A Test of Leadership," the summit was Spellings's latest effort to overcome skepticism over her aggressive plan to change the ground rules of American higher education. That plan has five parts, and while all five deserve gimlet-eyed scrutiny, one of them — "outcomes assessment" — is exceptionally mischievous.

Thursday

March 29th, 2007

National Review

Magazine

Subscribe

Enter your email to subscribe to daily Education News!

Hot Topics

Career Index

Plan your career as an educator using our free online datacase of useful information.

View All