with critical thinking skills, most colleges today would get an f. we are joined by nyu professor and co-author of academically adrift richard aren. good morning. good morning. we don t find many kids like that today getting those kinds of grades. today, we would give them b s. in fact, you have suggested that maybe we need to give kids a ged test just to see what they know because some of the kids who didn t go to college are smarter than the kids who do. yeah, that proposal by clarence page is interesting and provocative. i do think that we need to move from just giving people paper degrees to assessing what they learn and seeing whether or not they can actually perform these basic competencies. if they re not learning critical thinking in college, what are they doing? well, in our study, we followed several thousand students. we found a third of them spending less than an hour a day