Commission Backs Call for More Accountability in Higher Education
Fewer than 20 percent of high school juniors go on to finish college on time, and a national commission is calling for a fresh approach to accountability to counter what it termed a “crisis.”
A report from the National Commission on Accountability in Higher Education, chaired by former U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley and former Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating, says the United States has failed so far to develop and implement accountability approaches that improve performance in the country’s complex, decentralized system of higher education.
“We have a deep-seated structural crisis in American education—a crisis that is across the board from high school to college,” Mr. Riley said during a March 10 press conference here. “We seem to be very good at getting people into the academic pipeline, but not very good at getting them out on the other end...
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