Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Nerd News: Undergrads Not Learning Critical Thinking

Well, DUH.  Link via law prof Ann Althouse.
Many of the students graduated without knowing how to sift fact from opinion, make a clear written argument or objectively review conflicting reports of a situation or event, according to New York University sociologist Richard Arum, lead author of the study...
UPDATE: I just got this related news story from one of my former undergrads.

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