Margaret Austin Smith

Margaret Austin Smith is a former adult literacy instructor and a current graduate student studying the sociology of education and critical pedagogy at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Op-Ed

Undergrads May Fail Critical-Thinking Test, but Academia Is Failing Them

The two professors sat in front of me, making conversation before the talk. The speaker's title slide already projected on the wall ahead: "What (if anything) are undergraduates learning …