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20% of college freshman have never read an entire book

Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2017 1:24 am
by USN_Hokie

Re: 20% of college freshman have never read an entire book

Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2017 3:17 am
by 133743Hokie
Find that hard to believe

Re: 20% of college freshman have never read an entire book

Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2017 1:02 pm
by I85hokie
133743Hokie wrote:Find that hard to believe
I don't. Check out this article (or don't if you don't like giving clicks to a left-leaning "comedy" website). It's #1 on the list. In summary, it is apparently very common for American college students to pay foreigners to write their papers. I have to assume the culprits are likely liberal arts majors, since papers are usually a bigger part of their grade than for STEM majors. This kind of cheating would have been much more difficult to pull off for those of us who went to college on the pre or early internet days. And I imagine more than a few high school students partake as well. So it's not just our imagination that today's college students seem less educated.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-weird-way ... tolerable/