Bush Secretary Aims at Higher Ed.

From the administration that brought you "No Child Left Behind", currently crippling a school near you, comes Margaret Spellings and her plan to "reform" higher education. Why does this make me nervous?

Reading this, I noticed a couple of buzzwords: "Accountability", the favorite word of the Bush administration when talking about education, "User-friendly", and "Consumer-friendly".

While I agree that financial aid could be streamlined, everything else about Secretary Spellings proposals I oppose. Higher education is not a commodity, and students are not consumers. I'm afraid "accountability" is code for "no more tenure".

And the last thing we need in higher education is more standardized testing. In fact, I'm of the opinion that most standardized test should be burned and pissed on because they do nothing to teach students. Nothing at all. Not ONE DAMN THING.

My gods, will there be anything good left in this country when Bush leaves office?