May 27, 2008

Private-College Group Steps Up Promotion of a Test to Measure Student Progress

By Paul Basken

Two years after many colleges resisted attempts by the Bush administration to impose more rigorous methods of student assessment, a leading coalition of private institutions is pressing its members to adopt a popular standardized achievement test—just as the four-year-old exam faces new questions over its reliability.

This week the 600-member Council of Independent Colleges will accept a $666,000 grant from the Teagle Foundation to expand a consortium through which the

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