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Think about this: one of the factors that created many of our problems today is "credentials my" (pointed out by George Gilder in his Wealth & Poverty back in the 1980s. Men without college degrees who were superior workers were replaced by degrees women because of discrimination charges. So everywhere the answer was, "just require a degree."

Now VDH wants to raise this to a new level with the Feds in charge. Guess who will set testing standards, so that common sense schools like Hillsdale will be tested out of existence. It will be the AP US history test on steroids.

This is Hanson's second really dumb position (after opposing Trump for a year) in recent times.

“Now VDH wants to raise this to a new level with the Feds in charge.”

I've been advocating for this kind of ‘exit exam’, and it doesn't have to be ‘federally controlled’. Plus, such testing would have to be fact-based, and not subjectively interpretable (e.g. no essays, no opinion-based questions). For lots of subjects (biology, math, engineering, chemistry, accounting, foreign languages, anthropology, geology, business, etc.) it would be very straightforward to test based on universally accepted fundamental skills and knowledge. Medicine and Law already have their respective ‘exit exams’. It would be more difficult to do this for some degrees (e.g. english majors, history - maybe, because of the bias and subjectivity involved in the interpretation of history, etc.), but it's doable.

As we move to more and more ‘online’ education, and less bricks and mortar-based education, we will need standardized means to determine competency. It will, ultimately, make education cheaper, IMHO.