An interesting piece on recent US college graduates:
The article states:
“Students who spent
more time studying alone learned more, even after controlling for their
sociodemographic background, high school grades and entrance exam scores. So
did students whose teachers enforced high academic expectations. People who
studied the traditional liberal arts and sciences learned more than business,
education and communications majors.
…
Through diplomas,
increasingly inflated grades and the drumbeat of college self-promotion, these
students had been told they had received a great education. The fact that the
typical student spent three times as much time socializing and recreating in
college as studying and going to class didn’t change that belief. Nor did
unsteady employment outcomes and, for the large majority of those surveyed,
continued financial dependence on their parents.”
Ridiculous grade inflation at elite universities is
certainly not helpful: