So interesting you should bring this up. I recently read an article by Marty Nemko (all his stuff is worth reading) called “A Blueprint for Reinventing Education.” It’s available online.
Please allow me to quote a couple sentences.
“200,000 students each year who graduated in the bottom 40% of their high school class go to so-called four-year colleges. Of those, 3/4 of never graduate, even if given 8 1/2 years! “
“A new report in the Chronicle of Higher Education, The Great College Scam, indicates that 60 percent of the increased number of college graduates from 1992 to 2008 work on jobs requiring just high school!”
“Not only do most of those students not graduate, learn little, and be no more employable than if they hadn’t gone to college, they incurred huge student debt, and suffered the boredom and ongoing assault to self-esteem that comes from being forced to spend years studying academic material for which they are unprepared.”