Higher Education in America
When I started college, earning an A was table stakes for my honors classmates and me. This was the result of decades of grade inflation. By the mid-2000s, 42% of college students received A’s in their classes.2 This was a shift from the past. In the 1960s, earning an A was the third most likely grade after C’s and a B’s.
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
About one-third of the college students today will drop out, a marked rise since the 1960s, when the figure was only one in five.
Tyler Cowen • The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better: A Penguin eSpecial from Dutton
I need no convincing of the value of campus life and in-classroom education. I recognize that online platforms can’t perfectly replace what we deliver on campus. But they can fulfill key pieces of our core mission and reach many more students, of all ages and economic backgrounds, at a far lower cost. What online services lack in quality, they make... See more
Michael D. Smith • Are Universities Going the Way of CDs and Cable TV?
Educational expenditures are now about 6 percent of U.S. GDP.