The National Center for Education Statistics has found that most college graduates are below proficiency in their verbal and quantitative literacy. University of California professors Philip Babcock and Mindy Marks report that students now study an average of 14 hours a week, off from 24 hours in 1961.
The American Council of Alumni and Trustees surveyed 714 colleges and universities, and state " by and large, higher education has abandoned a coherent content-rich general education curriculum."
They are not taught the basics of literature, history or science. ACTA claims that most schools don't require a foreign language, and scarcely any require economics, American history and government "are badly neglected," and schools fail to "have much to do" on math and science.
ACTA has a website: www. whatwilltheylearn.com that gives details for each school, and tuition.
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