From the Christian Science Monitor, a report card on the recently renewed Higher Education Act by Congress:

Given the billions in federal aid, professors should be measured on the results of their core mission, education … lawmakers succumbed to [the higher education] lobby. They not only ditched the idea of providing data on quality, they barred the Education Department from doing so on its own … This act does make an effort to improve the access and affordability of higher education but fails in delivering on the most important aspect: accountability for quality.