Q&A: Lamar Alexander On Education In The New Congress - Claudio Sanchez, NPR

Lamar Alexander, presumptive new chair of Senate Education Committee: "I think ratings are fine, but the U.S. Congress and Department of Education don't have any business trying to develop a rating system for 6,000 higher education institutions in the country. All we'll get is a lot of controversy, a lot of regulations and a lot of confusion. I mean, how is Washington going to compare Nashville Auto-Diesel College [currently known as Lincoln College of Technology] and Harvard? Leave that to accrediting agencies. Have a lot of transparency so students and families can find out all they can about colleges. We have a marketplace of colleges and universities. It has produced the best system of higher education in the world. We don't need the federal government overregulating it." http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/11/11/363055451/q-a-lamar-alexander-on-education-in-the-new-congress