If you want to know if college is still necessary, just look at The World University Rankings, which recently came out for 2018 by Thomson Reuters. As usual, the list was dominated by US colleges and universities. However, the US has been slipping in ranking in recent years and more schools based in Europe and Asia have risen. The criteria in which schools are judged are by Research (income, volume and reputation), Teaching execution (learning environment) Citations (research influence) Industry income (innovation) and International outlook (students, research and staff). Before a student can pick a good college or university, we first need to focus on high school students around the world and how they fair. According to The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2015 ranking, American students ranked below average in math and about average in science and reading. This isn’t a good framework for future success in college. Arne Duncan, (former) Secretary of Education in the
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