A better community starts with better education

We would be better off in all ways if we had a more educated populace. And by educated, I don’t mean someone with a diploma.

A less obvious but more powerful opportunity for distinction: Be sure our graduates are well-educated.

This may sound obvious, but Columbia sociologist Shamus Khan notes in Good magazine that college students nationwide don’t study very much — just 14 hours per week. And, probably as a consequence, they don’t learn very much, either.

By J. Patrick Coolican

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