What They Need to Know January 23, 2008
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Employers want new way to judge graduates beyond tests, grades
Colleges have been scrambling over the past year to respond to recommendations from a national commission that they be clearer to the public about what students have learned by the time they graduate.
Sometime in the next several weeks, for example, a national online initiative will be launched that allows families to compare colleges on measures such as whether they improve a student’s critical-thinking skills.
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It builds on a survey last year in which business leaders said 63% of graduates are not prepared for the global economy.
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“We need to invent new forms of accountability that look at such issues as global knowledge and self-direction and intercultural competence, not just at critical thinking and communication skills,” she says.
Translated into English, the problem with American college graduates is that they really don’t have enough “critical thinking” skills — they’re not critical enough of the anachronistic mentality that people should have a high standard of living based on their wages and salaries. And they’re certainly not “prepared for the global economy” — they’re not prepared for pay so low that they have to live twenty to a house.
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