![]() ![]() The principal finding giving rise to such opinions is the claim that 45 percent of the more than 2,000 students tested in the study failed to show significant gains in reasoning and writing skills during their freshman and sophomore years. ![]() Neal, the group’s president, blogged in The Washington Post. The study “regrettably confirms what the American Council of Trustees and Alumni has been saying for some time: Many students aren’t learning very much at all in their first two years of college,” Anne D. Political pundits who have an ax to grind with American higher education are having a field day. The implications of the study recently released with the book Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses (University of Chicago Press), by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, have been portrayed in The Chronicle and other news media in apocalyptic terms: “extremely devastating in what it says about American higher education today,” an educational expert said in The Chronicle “A Lack of Rigor Leaves Students ‘Adrift’ in College,” NPR’s Morning Edition headlined its report. ![]()
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