Jamie Merisotis: Is College Worth It?: It Is if We Reinvent It There's a disturbing concept floating around. It's popping up fairly regularly in news coverage and often makes its way into op-ed columns and national magazine pieces. In short: Some are asking whether college is worth the money. Pointing to the dramatic increases in the cost of college and citing various "facts" that raise doubts about the quality and relevance of postsecondary programs, these experts are questioning the value of a college education. Skeptics of various stripes have shown up in venues ranging from ABC News to the Atlantic. Fair enough. The message from the job market is even more compelling. And the education mandate is sure to intensify in coming years. These statistics, coupled with overwhelming evidence from employers around the country, show clearly that the labor market has changed dramatically -- and that the change is permanent. And there's another gap we need to mind: the educational-equity gap separating the nation's various population groups.
Share Book Recommendations With Your Friends, Join Book Clubs, Answer Trivia Amazon.co.uk Is A College Education Worth The Debt? Love Hate Tattoo Studio - Miami A Perfect Storm in Undergraduate Education, Part 2 - Advice ... By Thomas H. Benton What is keeping undergraduates from learning? Last month, I speculated from my perspective as a college teacher about a set of interlocking factors that have contributed to the problem. In that column (The Chronicle, February 25), I referred to the alarming data presented by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa in Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses (University of Chicago Press, 2011) in the context of President Obama's call for more students to attend college in order to prepare for the economy of the future. Why, I asked, should we send more students to college—at an ever greater cost—when more than a third of them, according to Arum and Roksa, demonstrate "no improvement in critical thinking, complex reasoning, and writing skills" after four years of education? This month I want to speculate on why students (and, to a lesser extent, their parents) are not making choices that support educational success. The student as consumer. Thomas H.
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