Education Secretary Margaret Spellings announced plans Tuesday to recommend changes on her own and start building support for some of the more sweeping ideas that evolved from her higher education commission. Chief among them is the creation of a massive information-sharing system, opening up greater review of how colleges and universities are performing. It would require vast data collection on individual students, an initiative that is raising privacy concerns in some corners. Spellings also pledged to make it easier for people to apply for financial aid and to compare the price and the value of one school to another. She spoke of more federal college aid but would not endorse a specific request to raise Pell Grants, as her commission wanted. Spellings was also critical of graduation rates and rising costs associated with a college degree. \"Is it fine that only half our students graduate on time? Is it fine that students often graduate so saddled with debt that they can\'t buy a home or start a family? None of this seems fine to me\", she said.