Many Colleges Fail to Improve Critical-Thinking Skills
I&#x27;ve taught college. This study is wildly unsurprising. I&#x27;ve written about this in various places (e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jakeseliger.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;04&#x2F;27&#x2F;paying-for-the-party-elizabeth-armstrong-and-laura-hamilton&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jakeseliger.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;04&#x2F;27&#x2F;paying-for-the-party-eliz...</a>), but most colleges have evolved majors and paths that are designed to move students through the system, collect their tuition money, and graduate them.<p>In re-reading the previous sentence, I think I sound opposed to this. I am a little bit, maybe, but mostly I&#x27;m opposed to the way no one explicitly tells this to students. A lot of the brighter or better prepared ones figure it out, but many, it seems, never do.