What’s Wrong With Graduate Education in the U.S.?
According to “The Path Forward; The Future of Graduate Education in the United States,” what’s wrong with graduate education is too little of it. The Educational Testing Service and the Council of Graduate schools published this “landmark report,”on April 29; we know it’s a landmark report because ETS and CGS said so, in their press release. OK, OK, minimal irony from here on, I promise. The reason we need more people graduating with Ph.D.’s and M.A.’s–overwhelmingly the main reason–is the “necessity of a graduate-level workforce to maintain US competitiveness and innovation” (April 29 News Release), The United States “is in Read More …