Policy and Performance in American Higher Education: An Examination of Cases across State Systems
reviewed by William Zumeta
 Title: Policy and Performance in American Higher Education: An Examination of Cases across State Systems Author(s): Richard Richardson Jr. and Mario Martinez Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore ISBN: 0801891612, Pages: 282, Year: 2009 Search for book at Amazon.com
Performance in relation to established goals is of great import today in industry, government, the nonprofit world, and education. The press for better performance came sooner to elementary and secondary education but it has very definitely come to affect societal expectations of higher education in recent years. In 2006, higher education’s world was rocked by the first report of a federal commission on this sector in decades, A Test of Leadership (Spellings Commission, 2006), which criticized colleges and universities for among other things high costs, low graduation rates, and inability to demonstrate graduates’ learning. In a world of government budget imbalances–state as well as federal–stretching ahead as far as the eye can see, President Obama’s recent call for the United States to again lead the world in the production of college graduates by 2020 will call for a large ramp up in system performance.
At such a pass, this newly... (preview truncated at 150 words.) Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record, 2010, p. -
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