Offering some relief from a raft of reports about declining education attainment and increasing college costs, Anya Kamenetz celebrates Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) for boosting higher education productivity, access, and affordability ("Change," September/October 2011). According to Kamenetz, PLA is transforming higher education by leveraging lower-cost, nontraditional forms of learning and improving how learning is assessed. The author sees a more profound transformation occurring as PLA becomes more widespread: the divorcing of teaching from assessment. This separation of assessment and teaching raises three critical public policy issues for higher education: (1) how learning outcomes should be certified; (2) to what extent do-it-yourself education should be integrated into the broader education system; and (3) what government's role should be in this brave new world. In this article, the author addresses each of these issues, and the host of questions each raises.