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WWTL Announces Its First A+ Grade Schools
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) is pleased to announce the newest addition to its What Will They Learn?® rating system: the “A+” grade.
William Stearman, a former adjunct professor of international affairs at Georgetown University, bemoans “the thousands of fraudulent courses that plague our institutions of higher learning.”
I could have chosen a course more demanding than celestial navigation. The NSSE findings notes that older students, coming back to college after living and working in the real world, take their college time more seriously and are more likely to have challenging courses than undergraduates in their teens and early 20s.
I have spent the past three decades reporting on how few high school courses challenge students. Almost no public schools require long research papers. Only about half of U.S. students headed to college take college-level courses while in high school.
That may be one reason why so many are reluctant to challenge themselves in college. They are frightened by what might happen, so the colleges accommodate them with the frothiest academic fare. This would be a good time to rethink those bad practices.
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) is pleased to announce the newest addition to its What Will They Learn?® rating system: the “A+” grade.
Launched in 1995, we are the only organization that works with alumni, donors, trustees, and education leaders across the United States to support liberal arts education, uphold high academic standards, safeguard the free exchange of ideas on campus, and ensure that the next generation receives an intellectually rich, high-quality college education at an affordable price.
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