{"id":6177,"date":"2010-10-28T08:48:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T13:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/?p=6177"},"modified":"2020-09-12T17:14:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T22:14:40","slug":"a-closer-look-at-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/?p=6177","title":{"rendered":"A Closer Look at Higher Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <em>Daily Policy Digest<\/em> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncpa.org\/\">National Center for Policy Analysis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A quick review of the facts reveals that American universities often deliver easy, biased or useless content &#8212; at great expense to students, parents and taxpayers, says the Pope Center for Higher Education.<\/p>\n<p>University students learn less than many people think:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Only 29 percent of college graduates achieve a score of &#8220;proficient&#8221; on national literacy tests.<\/li>\n<li>American colleges fail to significantly increase students&#8217; civic knowledge; in a multiple-choice exam on America&#8217;s history and institutions, the average freshman scored 50.4 percent and the average senior scored 54.2 percent.<\/li>\n<li>Today&#8217;s students study only 14 hours per week outside of classes, compared to 24 hours in 1961.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Universities are expensive for students, parents and taxpayers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2008-2009, total federal, state and institutional aid to students totaled $168 billion.<\/li>\n<li>States spend an average of $4.4 billion each per year on higher education.<\/li>\n<li>In 2008, average debt of graduating seniors with student loans was $23,200 &#8212; up 24 percent from $18,650 in 2004.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A college degree is no guarantee of future success:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Twenty-nine percent of college grads work in high school-level jobs.<\/li>\n<li>Twenty percent of individuals making less than $20,000 per year have a college degree.<\/li>\n<li>After factoring in forgone wages and the cost of a college education, the average lifetime earnings advantage for college graduates ranges from $150,000 to $500,000 &#8212; not the million dollar figure that is often cited.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many college professors teach one-sided courses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In some university departments, the ratio of registered Democrats to Republicans is as high as 21.1 to 1.<\/li>\n<li>In a survey at 50 selective colleges, 46 percent of students said that some professors use the classroom to present their personal political views.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: Jenna Ashley Robinson, <a href=\"http:\/\/popecenter.org\/clarion_call\/article.html?id=2428\">&#8220;A Closer Look at Higher Education,&#8221;<\/a> Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, October 27, 2010.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Daily Policy Digest of the National Center for Policy Analysis: A quick review of the facts reveals that American universities often deliver easy, biased or useless&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,330],"class_list":["post-6177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-america","tag-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}