Inside Higher Ed: "The Center for American Progress has impeccable credentials for the Obama era. In the same way that the right-leaning Heritage Foundation and American Enterprise Institute had the attention of the Bush administration, the Center for American Progress, headed by the former Clinton confidante John Podesta, is the think tank for the current White House. Time magazine called the center 'Obama's idea factory' after his election last year.
Which makes the center's new white paper on higher education all the more interesting -- and, perhaps, all the more concerning to some college leaders."
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I completely respect the ideal of postsecondary education having accountability for student success academically and in the workplace, but I agree with the counterargument that there is too much deviation in teaching style, college organization and non-academic factors that vary a student's activity and performance in the classroom. Since school philosophies vary so much, there's no real way to create a standardized measurement model that accurately relates the average student's experience at a college or university. The suggestion of national academic reports would not suffice, since the classes being evaluated are not standardized to the point of being comparable. I do not believe a set of data released into public access would go unrecognized or unused by students in college decisions, but I feel there is too much room for error that there is no way such a report could actually be feasibly composed without significant reliability issues.
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