Education Department Plans to Publish List of Low-Performing Programs
Published Jan 12, 2023
By Katherine Knott
The Postsecondary Value Commission, a high-profile panel backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said in a report that students should, at minimum, earn as much as a high school graduate and enough to recoup what they paid for college within 10 years. The commission proposed measuring economic returns in terms of thresholds that would take into account whether a student’s earnings reach the median level for their field as well as economic mobility and security.
“When determining the value of particular programs, it is critical that the Department of Education keep equity in mind—not just whether programs deliver value over all, but whether they are delivering value to all groups of students, especially for those who have been historically marginalized,” said Diane Cheng, vice president of research and policy for the Institute of Higher Education Policy, which managed the commission. “To unearth potential inequities, the outcomes data included in the department’s calculations should be disaggregated by race, ethnicity, income and gender, wherever possible.”
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