[lbo-talk] College Makes Students More Liberal, but Not Smarter About Civics, Study Finds....not really though...

[Michael Perelman]

This is the organization founded by Leonard Read in the 1930s. He was 
manager of the Western Division of the United States Chamber of Commerce in 
the early 1930s.

see

http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/leonard-e-read-a-portrait/

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 09:01:52AM -0500, Bryan Atinsky wrote:
> I saw this article in The Chronicle of Higher Education titled:
> 
> 
>  College Makes Students More Liberal, but Not Smarter About Civics,
>  Study Finds
> 
> http://chronicle.com/article/College-Makes-Students-More/64040/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
> 
> 
> While many graduates of American colleges cannot answer basic civics
> questions, a higher education does make their opinions more liberal
> on controversial social issues, according to a new report issued on
> Friday by an academic think tank.
> 
> The Intercollegiate Studies Institute, an independent group with a
> tradition-minded view of issues, asked about 2,500 randomly selected
> people more than 100 questions to gauge their civic knowledge,
> public philosophy, civic behavior, and demographics.

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