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The Case for a College Report Card

The Atlantic - Column

January 17, 2012

Fully 36 percent of college students "did not demonstrate any significant improvement in learning" over four years of college. And if they weren't at college, they would have been learning in the real world, for example, on-the-job, self-selected learning, and in exploring, including travel. Today and especially tomorrow, a degree, especially one in the arts, humanities, or social sciences from a non-elite college, may well yield employment no better than could have been obtained with a mere high school diploma. Indeed, 60 percent of the increase in college graduates from 1992 to 2008 work in such jobs.

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