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Philosophy and the Transition from Theory to Practice: A Response to Recent Concerns for Critical Thinking

A recent New York Times article¹ has focused attention on Charles Miller's Commission on the Future of Higher Education and its interest in addressing the quality of student learning and its adequacy to the demands of practice. The commission has initiated a debate on the possibility of using "standardized testing" in universities and colleges in order "to prove that students are learning and to allow easier comparisons on quality."² Miller is quoted as saying, on the one hand, that "what is clearly lacking is a nationwide system for comparative performance purposes, using standard formats," and, on the other, that "there...