Accreditors Agonistes

A Chronicle online Colloquoy with Judith Easton: "Last month college leaders breathed a collective sigh of relief as Education Secretary Margaret Spellings said she would require "no one-size-fits-all measures, no standardized tests" from federally recognized agencies accrediting colleges. For months, colleges have been fighting language supported by the Bush administration in the reauthorized Higher Education Act that could impose assessment guidelines rather than giving colleges the ability to create their own. How will the debate shake out? Would college-created measures provide enough useful information to accreditors?