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Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa University Of Chicago Press 256 pp. $70 (2011) With rising numbers of students paying increasing sums to attend university, two social scientists' finding that they learn little when they get there is sobering. In their study of 2,300 students at 24 institutions in the United States, Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa demonstrate that undergraduates displayed little advancement in a range of skills including critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing. They suggest that the many social distractions of campus culture hinder learning.