COLEGES WANT STUDENTS, BUT DOES THAT MEAN SUCCESS ? ?

Too Much Higher Education

CNS NEWS.COM –  Walter E. Williams – 9/15/2011

http://cnsnews.com/blog/walter-e-williams/too-much-higher-education

A recent study from The Center for College Affordability and Productivity titled "From Wall Street to Wal-Mart," by Richard Vedder, Christopher Denhart, Matthew Denhart, Christopher Matgouranis and Jonathan Robe, explains that college education for many is a waste of time and money. More than one-third of currently working college graduates are in jobs that do not require a degree.

In other words, colleges dumb down courses so that the students they admit can pass them. Murray argues that only a modest proportion of our population has the cognitive skills, work discipline, drive, maturity and integrity to master truly higher education.

Limited Learning on College Campuses" (2011), report on their analysis of more than 2,300 undergraduates at 24 institutions. Forty-five percent of these students demonstrated NO SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT IN A RANGE OF SKILLS -- INCLUDING CRITICAL THINKING, COMPLEX REASONING AND WRITING -- during their first two years of college.

College freshmen taking remedial courses:

35 percent were enrolled in math

23 percent in writing

20 percent in reading

. . . only 32 percent of U.S. students achieved proficiency in math, compared with "75 percent of students in Shanghai, 58 percent in Korea, and 56 percent in Finland.

. . . U.S. students rank 32nd among industrialized nations in proficiency in math and 17th in reading.

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