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...question, "what does an individual get out of a college education?" is still classified as moot. One expert in the field, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, has from time to time in the past decade given alarming answers. Nearly ten years ago it began testing students in Pennsylvania to find out what they knew, how much they were learning. All told it has tested some 55,000 Pennsylvanians, as high-school seniors, as college sophomores and as college seniors. Last week the Foundation issued a summary of this tremendous study, called The Student and His Knowledge, Bulletin...
...Although as it is to be expected, the average college sophomore knows more than the high-school student and the senior more than the sophomore, individual scores run all the way up & down the scale, regardless of the length of schooling. Thus 10% of high-school seniors know more than the average college senior and 22% know more than the average sophomore. A study of a typical college showed that, if degrees were granted on the basis of general knowledge, at the time of the test 28% of the senior class, 21% of the juniors, 19% of the sophomores...
...from adding to their knowledge in college, .many students actually lose ground. Given the same test at two-year intervals, 15% of the students knew less at the end of the two years than they did before. In 20 of 33 colleges the average student had gone backwards in mathematics...
Meanwhile, on the Rensselaer campus, Robert G. Baumann, 160-pound captain of the college football team and president of the Student Union, briskly assembled his associates and their penny plunder, organized the Taxcentinels. Purpose of the stunt, explained Baumann, was to protest against "hidden taxes." The Taxcentinels signed a pledge "to help fight the growth of taxes which now consume 25? out of every dollar spent by the average person . . . [by paying] one-quarter of the price of all purchases in pennies, in order to dramatize this situation...
Next day a large part of Rensselaer's 1,400 students toted their canvas and paper bags into town, proceeded to give merchants another bad day. One student bought a $50 suit, banged down five pounds of pennies in part payment...