MARKET TESTS, INSUFFICIENT? Panel Explores Standard Tests for Colleges.

Kati Haycock, a commissioner who is director of the Education Trust in Washington, which has supported standardized testing, said in an e-mail message: "Any honest look at the new adult literacy level data for recent college grads leaves you very queasy. And the racial gaps are unconscionable. So doing something on the assessment side is probably important. The question is what and when."

Those literacy and numeracy deficiencies begin well before those students reach college. (Via University Diaries.)