Margaret Spellings: Extend ‘No Child Left Behind’ To Universities
I’m sure there are days when Education Secretary Margaret Spellings wishes she had just stayed in Texas and worked to screw up Texas public schools.
But, now that she’s President Bush’s right hand woman on education, she has more than just the Texas Legislature and Texas Education Agency breathing down her back.
That’s especially true now that she wants to extend “No Child Left Behind” into America’s colleges and universities.
Oh, but wait. She says she’s really not proposing that. She’s flip-flopping faster than an Alaskan Rainbow Trout thrown in the Rio Grande River:
All she wants, Spellings says, is better information made available to families, taxpayers and policymakers so they can make better decisions about how they spend their money. And given how little is really known about how well students are served by higher education, she says, she doesn’t see why anyone would find that unreasonable.
“If you want to buy a new car, you go online and compare a full range of models, makes and pricing options,” she says. “The same transparency and ease should be the case when students and families shop for colleges, especially when one year of college can cost more than a car.”
Hum…sounds a lot like rankings and ratings to me. And, since when do you compare selecting a college to picking a car?
Interesting.
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