Every few years, the College Board puts out a cheerleaderish paper extolling the wonders of going to college. It’s all good: the economy gets stronger, workers earn more, graduates live healthier, happier lives, they become better citizens, and so on. What with recent evidence that many graduates learn little, can’t find good jobs, can’t handle their student loans and that college enrollments are falling, the new paper has a Baghdad Bob feel to it.
In this week’s Clarion Call, I muster a number of arguments against the claims that college is good for just about everyone, especially the dismissal of the case that we have oversold higher ed as merely anecdotal.
