School’s cool

11-16-2009

By Eve Ewing/In These Times

Rose advocates for a discussion that appreciates the good things about schools, arguing that the pessimism of the dominant discourse helps perpetuate failure. The October 26 issue of Newsweek featured a cover story on the “three-year solution,” the belief of Robert Zemsky, a University of Pennsylvania professor, that the nation’s universities should shorten their undergraduate degree programs from four years to three. In a video on Newsweek’s website, Zemsky calls the youth currently entering higher education “mallrats,” who are accustomed to making decisions by “running from one end to the other, trying to compare… They think that’s what life is—you run from one end of the mall to the other.” (more...)

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