How Colleges Have Given Up on Educating Your Child...No Comment

Ashley Thorne

Today's No Comment item is a new book, The Five-Year Party: How Colleges Have Given Up on Educating Your Child and What You Can Do About It.

Click here to read a review of the book in today's Wall Street Journal. Click here to buy the book.

According to the review, The Five-Year Party includes a list of questions parents should ask on college tours. NAS published our own list last year, and last week we came out with some additional awkward questions for freshman orientation

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