Testing the aims of college
College graduates who can discuss the Gettysburg Address and get a job at Google.
That’s the closing image of Jon Meacham’s Oct. 7 Time cover story, “The Class of 2025.” The piece begins by considering what students actually learn in college (as far as the curriculum, at least). “What should every college graduate know?” Meacham wonders. Or, he ponders, should the question be, “What should every college graduate know how to do?”
Meacham quickly covers a bit of U.S. higher education history with a discussion of the core curriculum battles, then closes with the sticky wicket of assessment.
