Kick the Bipartisan Addiction to Higher Education Accountability Metrics - Commentary

Michael Brickman, adjunct fellow, American Enterprise Institute, writes: Conventionally, Democrats have an aversion to the idea of boiling everything that happens in K-12 education down to a simple metric that can be used to judge the efficacy of a school or its educators. Meanwhile, Republicans tend to resist the idea of any top-down, federal government-controlled metric used to determine nearly any outcome. These tendencies may help to explain why the debate over higher education accountability is so confusing.