November 24, 2006
Spellings Seeks Allies for Unit-Record System
The U.S. secretary of education, Margaret Spellings, is calling on higher-education researchers to champion the Bush administration's proposal to create a national system, known as a "unit-record database," that would allow the government to track a student's progress through college.
"Some people don't believe that success can be measured in higher education — many have said as much — but not you," Ms. Spellings said in a speech this month to researchers gathered
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