College Isn't What It Used to Be

In “The Lowering of Higher Education,” Christopher Phelps writes:

I was wondering what to make of this dispiriting but solitary data set when I read about the Education Department study released late last week that shows that the average literacy of college-educated Americans declined precipitously between 1992 and 2003. Just 25 percent of college graduates scored high enough on the tests to be deemed “proficient” in literacy.

Read the rest of the article at Inside Higher Ed.