Is our children learning...at college?

Rarely is the question asked, yet apparently someone must! Let's try to act surprised that the Bush administration would do the asking:

A higher education commission named by the Bush administration is examining whether standardized testing should be expanded into universities and colleges to prove that students are learning and to allow easier comparisons on quality.

Is this a problem that needs fixing, or just the administration's No Child Left Behind pseudo-solution out prowling for problems on a campus near you? (Maybe young, coed problems?) Last I checked, our system of higher education was doing pretty well, and, until overzealous immigration enforcement after 9/11, was drawing people from the rest of the world with its promise. But that is no matter if we can't ensure that monolithic, mediocre standards are applied across the country, of course. That, after all, is what makes our primary and secondary schools so great.

One lefty pinko academic had this to say:

The notion of a single exam implies there are national standards, and that implies a national curriculum. Then we are on the way to a centralized Prussian education system.

Maybe that's the plan - don't want to forget Poland, after all.