White House releases snapshot of plan to rate U.S. colleges

[Igel]

1. Oh, good. NCLB for post-secondary.

Horrible, anti-accountability idea.

It says, "I'll hold students accountable and teach them responsibility by making sure they aren't responsible for their failures, just their successes; and I'll take over all accountability to keep them from failing." Next will be systematic abuses of the system for measuring outcomes, more restrictions and requirements on how to measure outcomes, more systematic manipulations of the more restrictive system followed by even more restrictions ...