March 20, 2009

Obama Urges Colleges to Control Spiraling Costs

By SARA HEBEL

In a speech that stressed shared responsibility for improving education and urged better systems of accountability, President Obama reiterated his belief last week that America's long-term prosperity rests heavily on the nation's ability to do a better job of educating its people.

The president urged states and school districts to create better data systems to track students' educational progress from childhood through college, told colleges and universities they needed "to control