
They advocate a replacement system that would be "far more outcomes-based" than the accreditation system, such as standardized national examinations in various disciplines that would indicate whether schools were really educating students or just going through the motions. The latter would lose eligibility for federal funds.ACollege accreditation arose and developed long before the advent of federal student aid and turning it into the gatekeeper for access to government student aid was a mistake. When accreditation was voluntary, it probably accomplished at least some good. Now that it's almost mandatory, it has become predictably authoritarian and wasteful. It's time to undo the mistake.
Posted: November 17th, 2010
at 8:35pm by Koookiecrumbles
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