No Performance Test Is Planned for Colleges, Education Secretary Says

Margaret Spellings, U.S. secretary of education, did not equivocate when asked this month if the Education Department was moving toward creating a test to measure the performance of colleges.

"No. Absolutely not," said Ms. Spellings, who was speaking with reporters at the 60th annual meeting of the National Education Writers Association. She said that the Bush administration wanted to see more research on the value added by colleges relative to the cost of degrees, but that the

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