Americans Think We Have the World’s Best Colleges. We Don’t.

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<p>"Americans have a split vision of education. Conventional wisdom has long held that our K-12 schools are mediocre or worse, while our colleges and universities are world class. While policy wonks hotly debate K-12 reform ideas like vouchers and the Common Core state standards, higher education is largely left to its own devices. Many families are worried about how to get into and pay for increasingly expensive colleges. But the stellar quality of those institutions is assumed." ...</p>

<p>An article from June. Apologies if already posted earlier.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/29/upshot/americans-think-we-have-the-worlds-best-colleges-we-dont.html?abt=0002&abg=1"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/29/upshot/americans-think-we-have-the-worlds-best-colleges-we-dont.html?abt=0002&abg=1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>This is a follow-on that deals with some of the shortcomings of that article:
<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/08/upshot/more-on-american-colleges-standing-in-the-world.html?abt=0002&abg=0”>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/08/upshot/more-on-american-colleges-standing-in-the-world.html?abt=0002&abg=0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I would also posit this challenge to the article. The follow-on notes this:

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<p>What are the Piaac scores and population percentage with bachelor’s of US graduates with historical family ties to those countries? I would be shocked if they didn’t parallel each other. If someone could find the Piacc scores broken down by state, I’m sure Minnesota, a state with a large number of people with ties to Scandinavia, scores pretty well.</p>