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Are You Smart Enough? - How Colleges' Obsession with Smartness Shortchanges Students (Hardcover)
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Are You Smart Enough? - How Colleges' Obsession with Smartness Shortchanges Students (Hardcover)
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This book explores the many ways in which the obsession with "being
smart" distorts the life of a typical college or university, and
how this obsession leads to a higher education that shortchanges
the majority of students, and by extension our society's need for
an educated population. The author calls on his colleagues in
higher education to return the focus to the true mission of
developing the potential of each student: However "smart" they are
when they get to college, both the student and the college should
be able to show what they learned while there. Unfortunately,
colleges and universities have embraced two very narrow definitions
of smartness: the course grade and especially the standardized
test. A large body of research shows that it will be very difficult
for colleges to fulfill their stated mission unless they
substantially broaden their conception to include student qualities
such as leadership, social responsibility, honesty, empathy, and
citizenship. Specifically, the book grapples with issues such as
the following:Why America's 3,000-plus colleges and universities
have evolved into a hierarchical pecking order, where institutions
compete with each other to recruit "smart" students, and where a
handful of elite institutions at the top of the pecking order
enroll the "smartest" students. Why higher education favors its
smartest students to the point where the "not so smart" students
get second-class treatment. Why so many colleges find it difficult
to make good on their commitment to affirmative action and
"equality of opportunity." Why college faculties tend to value
being smart more than developing students' smartness (i.e.,
teaching and learning).
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