The U.S. secretary of education, Margaret Spellings, is calling on higher-education researchers to champion the Bush administration’s proposal to create a national system, known as a “unit record database,” that would allow the government to track individual students’ progress through college.
The system would help answer questions like: “How long will it take to get a degree? Will this institution prepare me for the field I want to work in? And how much is this education really going to cost?”
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