Feds: Test college students to ensure quality teaching

The federal government wants to test college students to ensure universities do a good job teaching, not to create a higher-education equivalent of the controversial No Child Left Behind Act, a Bush aide told school administratorsand professors Monday.

“We need to evaluate colleges, not based on reputations but performance outcomes,” Diane Auer Jones, assistant secretary for post-secondary education, said at an annual conference of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities in Baltimore.