Via truthout: Book Review: "Academically Adrift"

Margaret Austin Smith, Truthout: "Bless your hearts, Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, for calling on institutions of higher education to prioritize undergraduate learning. With "Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses," sociologists Arum and Roksa argue that undergraduate students seem to learn very little in college and that, in fact, they (Arum and Roksa) can show just how much those undergraduates are learning by bringing their own quantitative data set Determinants of College Learning (DCL) ... together with scores from the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA), a standardized test that analyzes 'core outcomes espoused by all of higher education': critical thinking, problem solving and writing."

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