Secretary of Education Linda McMahon's "Call to Action" letter makes no demands or threats. Instead, it asks institutions to answer seven questions, describe their commitments publicly and post their responses

Many of your students are arriving on campus having been encouraged to take AP courses in high school. But do you know if those rigorous classes provided an admissions boost?

Universities are often excellent at accounting for what happened. We are less consistent at understanding what is happening inside individual academic programs while there is still time to respond.