Who Needs College Anyway? Remarks by Charles Murray

President Obama, an ambitious new goal in his speech before Congress on 24 February 2009 announced that is 2020 America ... have the highest proportion of university graduates in the world. But some experts, like author Charles Murray, dont think we need more Americans to the university. Bring in his new book, Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Americas Schools Back to Reality (Random House, 2008), Murray argues that the Americans too much emphasis on the Bachelor. Murray andResearchers Anthony Carnevale discusses Who Needs a College Education Anyway? at the Hechinger Institute Seminar for Higher Education Reporter in December 2008. Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed moderated the debate. Murray, WH Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, contends that because the ability to vary and 50 percent of people are below the average, our current system of higher education makes little sense. Carnevale, Research Professor and Director of the Georgetown UniversityCenter for Education and the staff argued that we should encourage to visit as many students as possible and graduate from college, because isn't fixed at birth and intelligence can be influenced through education. After her remarks, Murray and Carnevale took questions from journalists to participate in the seminar.



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