QUOTE OF THE DAY. Joanne Jacobs, with the latest discovery of higher education's high defect rate.

Many students going to college haven't taken college-prep classes in high school. They haven't learned to write a research paper. They have trouble reading college-level texts. They haven't mastered enough math to handle science, business or engineering classes. So they get discouraged and drop out.

Ah, but it's the warm fuzzies that "access" gives the administrators, and the additional work for the "retention" offices, that count, not whether anybody is actually learning.