Grading the states' higher ed accountability systems

From the Education Sector web site:

In 2008 and 2009, Education Sector conducted a comprehensive analysis of higher education accountability systems in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. We analyzed thousands of documents, Web sites, policies, and laws attempting to answer two questions:

1. What information do states collect on their higher education institutions?
2. How do they use that information to affect institutional improvement?

And in December 2008, we published Ready to Assemble: A Model State Higher Education Accountability System, where we describe the current state of the art in state higher education accountability and offer a set of guidelines for designing a model system.

And now, for the rest of the story...