After a year-long study, the federally funded Commission on the Future of Higher Education reported that U.S. colleges are not giving students “the education that they need.” Pointing to “disturbing signs,” the panel concluded that even though degrees are being awarded, many graduates “have not actually mastered the reading, writing and thinking skills” they should have gained. As can be expected, the report urged wider access to federal grants for those who want to spend four years earning an increasingly suspect degree.
Our colleges are suffering form the same malady as all of our public schools, the dumbing down of the students. This is all because of the government intrusion in operating our school systems. Parents or students no longer have any opportunity for input and are helpless to change the curriculum.
It is no wonder that many graduating students are unable to balance a checking account.