Report: First two years of college show small gains
also disturbing
my first reaction is to cry foul, that it's entirely up to the students to make academics a priority, and while true, i also believe our unis could hold themselves up as institutions of learning, and not businesses, which i believe they've mutated into being.Nearly half of the nation's undergraduates show almost no gains in learning in their first two years of college, in large part because colleges don't make academics a priority, a new report shows.
also disturbing
i think there's quite a bit of enabling going on, and it's not doing much for either the students' adulthood in the workplace, and keeps them saddled w/ student debt by not creating competitive monkeysAfter two years in college, 45% of students showed no significant gains in learning; after four years, 36% showed little change.
Students also spent 50% less time studying compared with students a few decades ago, the research shows.
"These are really kind of shocking, disturbing numbers," says New York University professor Richard Arum, lead author of the book, published by the University of Chicago Press.
He noted that students in the study, on average, earned a 3.2 grade-point average. "Students are able to navigate through the system quite well with little effort," Arum said.