Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning MorePrinceton University Press, 2006 - 413 pàgines Drawing on a large body of empirical evidence, former Harvard President Derek Bok examines how much progress college students actually make toward widely accepted goals of undergraduate education. His conclusions are sobering. Although most students make gains in many important respects, they improve much less than they should in such important areas as writing, critical thinking, quantitative skills, and moral reasoning. Large majorities of college seniors do not feel that they have made substantial progress in speaking a foreign language, acquiring cultural and aesthetic interests, or learning what they need to know to become active and informed citizens. Overall, despite their vastly increased resources, more powerful technology, and hundreds of new courses, colleges cannot be confident that students are learning more than they did fifty years ago. |
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... Preparing for a Global Society 225 10 Acquiring Broader Interests 255 11 Preparing for a Career 281 12 Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education 310 Notes 345 Index 395 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In writing this book , I have benefited much.
... careers . As former Assistant Secretary of Educa- tion Diane Ravitch has observed , " American higher educa- tion has remade itself into a vast job - training program in which the liberal arts are no longer central . " 10 According to ...
... careers in the world's most prosperous economy.13 Ambitious young men and women all over the world are eager to take their place and are empowered by technology to do so . In this environment , the quality of education in American ...
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The Evolution of American Colleges | 11 |
Faculty Attitudes toward Undergraduate Education | 31 |
Purposes | 58 |
Learning to Communicate | 82 |
Learning to Think | 109 |
Building Character | 146 |
Preparation for Citizenship | 172 |
Living with Diversity | 194 |
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