Learning & Assessment

Education secretary's final higher ed summit finds general consensus on problems, but less on how to fix them -- and who should take charge.

In ambitious, long-term effort, West Point maps and measures a multi-layered set of outcomes across the curriculum.

As education secretary's summit awaits, report from business officers' group assesses the impact of her panel on higher education.

For-profit giant releases study designed to show how much learning takes place, but were the "before" and "after" comparisons of the same group?

Kevin Carey sees flaws in the increasingly international business of rating colleges -- but also sees legitimate reasons for the comparisons.

In many quarters within American higher education, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings is viewed (unfairly, she and her supporters would argue)...

Two higher education groups say academic leaders should take charge of effort to collect and publicly report outcomes -- largely shunning "comparability" pushed by politicians.

The federal panel that advises the U.S. education secretary on accreditation began its biannual meeting in Washington Tuesday, fighting perceptions...