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Core Curriculum Matters at What Will They Learn?® “A” Schools
Students, alumni, faculty, and administrators from Patrick Henry College, with a model “A”-grade core curriculum in ACTA’s What Will
Most college ranking systems, like the U.S. News & World Report, do not evaluate what students actually learn in the classroom. What Will They Learn?® is the only rating system that examines the course catalogs of each school to provide an urgently needed, alternative assessment based on an institution’s core curriculum, the program of study that all students share. ACTA’s research team also collects data on several indicators that predict student success after college, including student-to-faculty ratios, campus-specific student loan default rates, graduation rates, the state of free expression on campus, and cost of attendance.
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