Conservative War on Good Education
October 29, 2007
by Neal McCluskey
Neal McCluskey is a policy analyst at Cato's Center for Educational Freedom, and author of Feds in the Classroom: How Big Government Corrupts, Cripples, and Compromises American Education.
Last month we marked one year since the U.S. Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education released a report castigating America's ivory tower and setting out a "national strategy" to overhaul it. Also in September, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI)—a conservative higher education watchdog—throttled some of America's best universities for their performance on a test that seemed designed to fail them. And in Congress right now, many Republicans are pushing for bill that would publicly shame colleges that raise their prices too fast. Conservatives, it appears, are at war with the one system of American education that actually works.
Let's start with ISI. This is the second year that it has given a U.S. history test to freshman and seniors at a sampling of American colleges and universities, and the results, by ISI's account, were both abysmal overall, and worst at prestigious institutions.
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