Toward a New Approach to Regulating Higher Education
A strengthened management-based regime could be combined with a lessening of unnecessary and unhelpful “command and control.”
President Obama’s College Rating Proposal
The college rating controversy reveals the challenges of a performance-based approach to regulating higher education.
Management-Based Regulation of Higher Education
Regulation of higher education has long been “management-based”—and under attack for being ineffectual.
Types of Regulation
Those seeking to reform the regulation of higher education must understand the available tools.
Learning from the “College Rating System” Debate
The Obama Administration’s failed effort to establish a rating system holds implications for the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act.
Improving Higher Education Regulation
In a six-part series, Provost Wendell Pritchett explains why reforming higher education requires careful analysis of the fundamentals of regulation.
Should Congress Simplify Regulation of Higher Education?
Senate-sponsored task force urges streamlined approach to the regulation of higher education.
Testing is Destroying the Common Core
The marriage between the Common Core and testing should be annulled.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Common Core
When debating Common Core, activists lose sight of students far too often.
The Common Core is Passable in Theory but Problematic in Reality
The way the Common Core has been implemented undermines the value that could come from robust educational standards.
Stay the Course, or Turn the Page?
Common Core’s dual, social and technocratic, nature creates hurdles for political reform.