Consistently Inconsistent: Business and the Spellings Commission Report on Higher Education (original) (raw)

2007

Abstract

education, A Test ofLeadership, has generated much interest and concern among those of us who teach at the postsecondary level. The current presidential administration has been quite active in education, most notably with the pass ing and implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Many postsecondary educators were concerned that the Spellings Commission would do for higher education what NCLB did for K-12. Specifically, there was a fear that the commission would recommend the implementation of national, standardized test ing for all postsecondary institutions. The commission was appointed and charged by the Secretary of the Department of Education, Margaret Spellings, "to consider how best to improve our system of higher education to ensure that our graduates are well prepared to meet our future workforce needs and are able to participate fully in the changing economy" (Test 30). The commission's charter stipulates that there be no more than twenty represen...

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