Looming 'demographic cliff': Fewer college students and fewer graduate
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> She points out that, based on NCES data, the United States has fallen to ninth among developed nations in the proportion of its 25-to-64-year-old population with any postsecondary degree.
> "We should be aiming for No. 1, and we're not," she says.
This is an example of the poor reasoning skills of today's college graduates.
The US doesn't simply need more people with college credentials. That's a recipe for grade inflation and participation trophy type credentials: just what we have been getting. The US needs more people with objectively measured levels of reasoning skill and liberal arts and science knowledge.