[Phys-l] Spellings Releases Plan for Higher Ed

[Richard Hake <rrhake@earthlink.net>]

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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 08:36:22 -0400
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Subject: IHE NEWS BULLETIN: Spellings Releases Plan for Higher Ed
From: newsroom@insidehighered.com

Education Secretary Margaret Spellings plans a many faceted campaign 
to carry out the recommendations of her Commission on the Future of 
Higher Education, including providing matching funds to colleges and 
states that collect and publicly report how well their students 
learn, building a "privacy protected" database of college students' 
academic records, and streamlining the process of applying for 
federal student aid.

Those are among a small number of specific efforts that Spellings 
will announce in a speech today in which she will endorse the panel's 
work and challenge college leaders, policy makers and the public to 
help improve an American higher education system that she describes 
as slipping.

The full article is available on the Inside Higher Ed Web site, at
<http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/09/26/spellings>.

For background on the Spellings Commission, you can find all of IHE's 
extensive coverage of the panel and its work at
<http://insidehighered.com/news/focus/commission>