The number of schools ranked highly in guides such as Barron's Profiles of American Colleges is increasing, without any evidence that these schools' instructional quality is also increasing. Applicants and their families should be wary of letting these rankings serve as the main criteria in their college decisions.

Proposals for reforming the higher education accreditation system have ignited a firestorm of controversy this year. While Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings and the recent Commission on the Future of Higher Education have both recommended changes to the current accreditation process, others in the higher education community feel that the...

Leading higher education researchers and practitioners will present their findings explore the findings’ implications for designing and implementing effective accountability systems for higher education.

How can we reshape failing aspects of the traditional postsecondary system? What might we learn from emerging entrepreneurial providers?

Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings and others on what's wrong with higher education today--and how to fix it.

Racial preferences thrive shrouded in secrecy.

When it comes to making the case for the niche they fill, the for-profit colleges and universities must be more proactive about showing that they do add to the common good, and they must be more transparent about how they do so.

College rankings are useful in trying to distinguish the great from the mediocre and the good values from the rip-offs.