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Does College Make You Smarter?

New York Times - Room for Debate Blog

January 25, 2011

First there was the news that students in American universities study a lot less than they used to. Now we hear, in a recent book, Academically Adrift, that 45 percent of the nation's undergraduates learn very little in their first two years of college. The authors' research has come in for some criticism. But a larger question is: Have colleges, in their efforts to keep graduation rates high and students happy, dumbed down their curriculums? If they have, who is to blame? What should parents and federal taxpayers do?

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