Colleges Rattled as Obama Seeks Rating System - MICHAEL D. SHEARMAY, NY Times

The college presidents were appalled. Not only had President Obama called for a government rating system for their schools, but now one of his top education officials was actually suggesting it would be as easy as evaluating a kitchen appliance. “It’s like rating a blender,” Jamienne Studley, a deputy under secretary at the Education Department, said to the college presidents after a meeting in the department’s Washington headquarters in November, according to several who were present. “This is not so hard to get your mind around.” The idea that the government would try to rate the schools has rattled the entire higher education system, from elite private institutions to large state universities to community colleges. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/26/us/colleges-rattled-as-obama-presses-rating-system.html