Thinking and Linking by Joanne Jacobs
College costs too much. Where is the WalMart of higher education?
Also on Community College Spotlight: The new regulations that base student loan eligibility on for-profit colleges’ outcomes aren’t all that tough. But the precedent has been set — and soon the Education Department will be tracking outcomes for all colleges before handing out loans that won’t be repaid.
College leaders fear intrusive regulation unless they find ways to show students are learning.
Also on Community College Spotlight: At a House subcommittee hearing, higher education leaders speak out against proposed Education Department regulations that define a credit hour by “seat time.”
Federal education law should move from a command-and-control system to an outcomes-based system, says Rep. George Miller at the March 1 hearing on federal education regulations. He makes an eloquent defense of data.
I met Miller about 25 years ago, maybe more. He hasn’t changed at all. It’s Dick Clark-like.
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