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.
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