Study: Half of college students learn nothing

About 45 percent of college students perform no better on a reasoning and writing test after two years of college than before, according to a new study by sociologists Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa. More than 35 percent of students show no improvement on the test even after four years of college.

"Growing numbers of students are sent to college at increasingly higher costs, but for a large proportion of them the gains in critical thinking, complex reasoning, and written communication are either exceedingly small or empirically nonexistent," they write.

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