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Charles Miller, the chair of the Secretary of Education’s Commission of the Future of Higher Education, wrote in an e-mail to fellow commission members last month that there was “no intent, no expectation” to mandate standardized testing of college students, the...
Miller had previously suggested that the commission might advise Congress to withhold funding from colleges who did not administer standardized tests.
The suggestion drew criticism from higher education officials. The Presidents of MIT, Tufts University and Boston University spoke out against mandated standardized testing at a public meeting of the commission last month.
The commission, which was created last year to develop higher education policy proposals, will release a report of its recommendations in August.
Harvard’s senior director of federal and state relations, Kevin Casey, said that he had “hoped and assumed” that the commission would not ultimately endorse the suggestion to mandate standardized testing.