December 5, 2008

News Analysis: Higher Education's Grade for Data: 'Incomplete'

By Sara Hebel

The latest national report card on higher education, as in the past, handed out a lot of "incompletes." Like the student who keeps forgetting to turn in that lab report, the grades can't be computed without all the data.

There is still plenty that policy makers don't know about their states' higher-education performance, and the gaps in information limit the abilities of lawmakers to fix perennial concerns, like how to attract more low-income and minority students, reduce the

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