On Thursday afternoon, Vice President Joe Biden announced a “no-brainer” decision to “strengthen Title IX” by rescinding the Bush administration’s model interest survey as a viable means of Title IX compliance. A press release accompanying the announcement said that the model interest survey was “widely criticized for being inadequate and inconsistent with Title IX’s nondiscrimination goals.” That’s the same model interest survey, mind you, that earlier this month the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights praised as the best method of Title IX compliance. The Commission recommended that the Department of Education continue to encourage schools to comply via the survey. The Department of Education apparently decided to go in the opposite direction, killing the only student-centered approach to Title IX compliance in the process. I have more details over at Minding the Campus.