1. Federal Panel Floats Plan to Overhaul Accreditation.
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Bollag, Burton and Selingo, Jeffrey
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HIGHER education , *UNIVERSITY & college accreditation , *EDUCATION policy , *UNIVERSITIES & colleges , *COLLEGE administrators - Abstract
The article reports that accreditors and some college groups in the U.S. are aghast at a proposal to eliminate regional accreditors and replace them with a national accreditation body. The proposal is contained in a discussion paper released late last month by the secretary of education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education. The news came just as the chairman of the commission allayed another concern of college officials by publicly promising that a mandatory test of college students would not be among the panel's final recommendations.
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- 2006