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What the rankings won't tell you
With the launch today of our college guide website WhatWillTheyLearn.com, ACTA gives parents and students information on colleges and universities that they won't find anywhere else. The website grades universities based on their general education requirements: the core courses students need to become informed citizens who can participate successfully in the global marketplace. WhatWillTheyLearn.com cuts through the verbiage of course catalogues and allows anyone to simply look up a university or college and find out whether it's making sure its students are learning what they need to know.
In short, we're looking at education -- not reputation.
The accompanying report What Will They Learn? makes clear why parents and students need the website: at most of our leading colleges and universities, the "do-it-yourself" approach to the curriculum prevails, and students are graduating with a thin and patchy education. Of the 100 leading universities from the across the country that we surveyed, only two require economics and only 11 have an American government or history requirement. Nearly half allow students to graduate without taking a single math class.
Posted by David Azerrad on August 19, 2009 at August 19, 2009 11:02 AM
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