Here is a set of responses (pdf) to the Spellings report by some of the leaders in education policy, including Arthur Levine, Charles Miller, and Chester Finn.

Some highlights:

“One would never know from reading this report that the humanities continue to be an important part of the collegiate experience.”

“Decades of dreary experience prove that public hearings of this sort [which will take place in the coming months] mainly attract ‘stakeholders,’ not reformers, and the one thing they can agree on is that things are pretty darn swell that way they are today, though more money would surely be welcome.”

“The commissions recommendations lack the specificity to give them meaning and power.”