March 9, 2007

Education Department Relents on Measuring Achievement

By BURTON BOLLAG

Ever since last spring, when the federal Commission on the Future of Higher Education floated an idea to dismantle the current college-accreditation system, accrediting groups have been on the defensive against criticism, mainly from the Bush administration, that their methods of evaluating colleges fail to measure what students learn.

Now, for the first time, accreditors have scored a victory, if a minor one. They have succeeded in pushing back a controversial proposal by the

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