[lbo-talk] How Much Do College Students Learn, and Study?

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Actually the bit about K-12 scoring miserably is not quite true. I think the upper quintile are entirely at the level of the top students in the world. But the great magnitude of poverty and sub-par inner-city schools drag the averages down. 

As for what people are getting out colleges....at the point where a concern for justice was entirely replaced by a concern for power (early eighties), there wasn't much left for colleges to teach.

Joanna

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
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Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 7:33:13 PM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] How Much Do College Students Learn, and Study?

On Jan 27, 2011, at 10:18 PM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:


> I still simply cannot under stand why anyone finds this study in the least
> interesting.

Well, we've got a generation of K-12 kids who score miserably on international tests, we're about the only country in the world where people in their 20s are not surpassing the educational attainment of people in their 50s, and a major chunk of college students are getting approximately nothing out of their experience, yet we nonetheless think we're pretty fucking great. I dunno, I see a problem with that.

Doug
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