April 7, 2006

New Database Would Customize College Rankings

By KELLY FIELD

While testing of students is the most publicized piece of the Commission on the Future of Higher Education's approach to accountability for colleges, it is only one piece. The panel is working on a concept for a database that would allow consumers to rank colleges based on variables of their choosing, and intends to endorse a controversial plan to create another database to track the educational progress of every college student in the United States.

The rankings database, which

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