To determine how successfully colleges and universities teach American history, government, and economics, more than 14,000 undergraduate students at 50 universities were tested on American civics. This report details how students around the country and Texas performed.
Higher Education
Colleges Are At Risk Of Closing. Good.
“You’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy” is an increasingly fitting description of the American college graduate. While that World Economic Forum slogan is rightly mocked for its managerial creepiness, jokes aside, the average student nowadays is surely more nihilistic about the world than previous generations. The economic bargain of college, however, is looking increasingly...
September 8, 2026