{"id":3920,"date":"2011-08-19T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3920"},"modified":"2013-05-06T11:01:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T16:01:26","slug":"speaking-of-a-college-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3920","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of a college education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the sections in this infographic the one I find the most troubling is the one that says that only 1 in three students show a measurable improvement in cognitive skills after three years of college:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mastersdegree.net\/grade-inflation\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.mastersdegree.net.s3.amazonaws.com\/grade-inflation.jpg\" alt=\"From C's to A's\" width=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Created by: <a href=\"link deleted at makers request<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A major reason for this is that college students apparently don&#8217;t do much reading or writing. They should really blog more. <\/p>\n<p>And damnit, I got another lousy night&#8217;s sleep again. Student parties surrounded us. They were all indoors, thankfully, but with the windows open. There was a lot of singing kitty corner to us and across the alley. Guitars at the first, one of those voice pitch enhancement devices  (I think) at the latter. It was only Thursday night. I don&#8217;t know if Summer Session is in full swing but the young people are. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the sections in this infographic the one I find the most troubling is the one that says that only 1 in three&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8952,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions\/8952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}