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Right call, wrong reason
This Sunday's New York Times carried a piece by former New York City schools chancellor Harold O. Levy that offers a number of suggestions for improving America's schools and higher education. One of them is to unseal college accreditation reports--a dose of sunlight that is surely a good idea. But let us be clear: Most accreditation reports are far from "rigorous evaluations." Indeed, they are often anything but, failing to measure reliably student achievement while taking the time to measure, for example, how many books are in the campus library and what proportion of faculty members have doctorates. Levy is correct that they can contain hard-to-obtain information, but accreditation reports--without the serious reforms advocated by ACTA--should not be the means by which parents evaluate colleges.
Posted by Noah Mamis on June 10, 2009 at June 10, 2009 03:28 PM
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