Arguing that higher education must do a better job defining and tracking productivity, but that the current models for doing so are inadequate, the National Research Council released a book-length study Thursday suggesting a new set of metrics that would allow for a sectorwide look at productivity.
The study is in part a critique of outside attempts by some politicians and analysts to quantify educational productivity, and in other parts a challenge to colleges to overcome barriers to producing such measurements themselves (lest more outside efforts be imposed). ...