Study of the Week: Rebutting Academically Adrift with Its Own Mechanism
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It's a frustrating fact of life that arguments that are most visible are always going to be, for most people, the arguments that define the truth. I fear that's the case with Academically Adrift, the 2011 book by Richard Arum and Joseph Roksa that has done so much to set the conventional wisdom about the value of college. That book made incendiary claims about the limited learning that college students are supposedly doing Many people assume that the book's argument is the final word. There are in fact many critical words out there on its methodology, or the methodology we're allowed to see. (One of the primary complaints about the book is that the authors hide the evidence for some of their claims.) Richard Haswell's review,
Study of the Week: Rebutting Academically Adrift with Its Own Mechanism
Study of the Week: Rebutting Academically…
Study of the Week: Rebutting Academically Adrift with Its Own Mechanism
It's a frustrating fact of life that arguments that are most visible are always going to be, for most people, the arguments that define the truth. I fear that's the case with Academically Adrift, the 2011 book by Richard Arum and Joseph Roksa that has done so much to set the conventional wisdom about the value of college. That book made incendiary claims about the limited learning that college students are supposedly doing Many people assume that the book's argument is the final word. There are in fact many critical words out there on its methodology, or the methodology we're allowed to see. (One of the primary complaints about the book is that the authors hide the evidence for some of their claims.) Richard Haswell's review,