Sir Winston Churchill. Florence Nightingale. Richard the Lionhearted. All were figures in British history whose reputations and legacies rose to mythical proportions. But too many young Britons have taken that observation one sad step...
Anne D. Neal doesn’t seem to mind being the lonely voice in the wilderness when it comes to the value of college accreditation. She gets a lot of practice. In late December, as a...
I’m not sure how serious my correspondent was when he asked me if I could give him some advice on what to say to his teenage son, who couldn’t see the sense of studying...
One year ago, American colleges were on the defensive, as the Education Department prepared to write tougher rules on the way federally recognized accrediting agencies should assess how well the institutions teach their students....
After an unexpectedly contentious opening session of its biannual meeting in Washington Tuesday, the Education Department’s advisory committee on accreditation settled down on Day 2. But a few key flashes of debate laid bare...
The Bush administration’s high-profile campaign for colleges to adopt tougher student-assessment standards may be dwindling “at least for now” to a one-person show by a die-hard adviser. The federal panel charged with reviewing college...
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