Unlearning literature

by E Wayne Ross on December 3, 2006

The Boston Globe: Unlearning literature

By Elizabeth Kantor | November 30, 2006
IT’S OFFICIAL: You spend tens of thousands of dollars to send your children to college. In return, the colleges turn out graduates who are more ignorant than when they enrolled.

According to a recent survey by the University of Connecticut and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute of more than 14,000 randomly selected college freshman and seniors at 50 colleges across the country, seniors actually know less about American history and government than entering freshmen.

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