Thursday, January 20, 2011

That's more than half!

The research of more than 2,300 undergraduates found 45 percent of students show no significant improvement in the key measures of critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing by the end of their sophomore years.

6 comments:

jimmiraybob said...

Who knew that there was a Fox News viewer track in today's academy.

Olives and Arrows said...

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....found 45 percent of students show no significant improvement in the key measures of critical thinking, complex reasoning....

Yes. And a significant number of those are dropout leftists. Surprizingly, a portion of those actually do end up working for a living, although mostly wallowing in their own misery with dead-end McJobs.

DanF said...

Based on the evidence, I'd say quite a few of them manage to spend their days trolling liberal blogs.

Cervantes said...

These two Republicans are sitting in a bar and one says, "Did you know we only use one third of our brain?"

The other one says, "Really? What do we do with the other third?"

pansypoo said...

i give credit to reading trixie belden/nancy drew and moving on to more adult mysteries for developing my bullshit detector. and columbo and other cop shows. relalitee teevee is making us stoopider.

Anonymous said...

One little known study, howver, showed the ability to consume beer and copiously urinate in funky bar urinals was markedly improved during their times away from the classroom...vox