Panel urges higher-ed overhaul – Sky-high tuition and lack of accountability are targets of a federal commission.

When today’s babies grow up and head to college around 2025, will they look back at 2006 as a radical turning point in American higher education? That’s the hope of the Commission on the Future of Higher Education, a prestigious 19-member panel that presented its findings this month after a year of hearings and deliberations. On Tuesday, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, who had appointed the group, outlined what she would do to address the keynotes of affordability and accountability in higher education.

By Stacy A. Teicher | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

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