David Kirp Reviews Book by Charles Murray, Real Education

The American Prospect, Nov. 24, 2008 by David Kirp
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=college_for_the_few

In Real Education, Murray turns the spotlight on higher education. He’s up to his familiar tricks: This time the provocation is that too many people go to college. Murray loves to make broad-brush, simple-sounding claims—welfare causes dependency, intelligence is inherited—and Real Education offers four of these “simple truths.”