Federal Commission Gears Up for the Home Stretch

The higher-education panel sets its priorities and considers new approaches to accountability and accreditation

With less than four months remaining in its charter, the secretary of education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education took a series of informal votes this month to identify members' chief goals for the commission's report.

Topping the list was increasing access to college for low-income students and adults. That was followed by improving the nation's

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