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...Sarah Miller, 28, was victim of those old ways. An intelligent but rebellious teenager with a turbulent home life, Sarah began falling behind in attendance and classwork her freshman year. Like many other 15-year-olds, she had a talent for making poor decisions. She and her friends would often skip out of school after lunch and cruise up and down Broadway. Teachers rarely stopped them, but school authorities knew what she and her friends were up to. One morning Sarah went to the school office to discuss getting back on track but got a surprise. One of the administrators...
...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 Chronicle of Higher Education reported Friday...
...Miller had previously suggested that the commission might advise Congress to withhold funding from colleges who did not administer standardized tests...
According to a paper by Miller and University of Texas administrator Geri Malandra posted on the commission’s website, accountability is a pressing issue because college academic standards are becoming “diluted...
...Harvard in 1950, for example, about 15 percent of students got a B+ or better: today the average is 70 percent,” Miller and Malandra wrote...