What are you learning in college? Not much, new book finds

What are you learning in college? Not much, new book finds

January 18, 2011 at 4:24PM

A story by the AP introduces what are sure to be contentious findings. It begins:

The study -- based on standardized test scores, themselves controversial -- finds, among other things, that: It's better to attend a selective school. Studying alone helps. Writing helps. Enter the Greek system at your own peril.

I have not yet read the book, and I'm guessing that, at this point, you have not either. But what do you make of the summary (this one via the Chonicle of Higher Education)? What questions do you hope the full text addresses? What parallels do you see to your own education?

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