With the crisis in learning standards, Texas should strengthen the learning-outcomes component of its definition of student success. Students deserve both a timely path to graduation and a degree that signifies genuine progress in learning.
Yale Finally Says the Quiet Part Out Loud
Yale’s Committee on “Trust in Higher Education” just released what higher-education reformers have to view as a remarkable document. It addresses the ongoing erosion of public trust in America’s universities. In doing so, it owns up to the self-censorship, extreme faculty political homogeneity, grade hyperinflation, administrative bloat, and the opaqueness of “holistic” admissions. For an...