N.C. State English Professor R.V. Young discusses the failure of American education

Dr. R.V. Young, professor of English at N.C. State University and editor of Modern Age, describes the crisis in American education. Young focused on one specific example of that crisis — the decline in quality of English composition instruction — during an August 2, 2010, speech to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society. To watch full-length presentations of John Locke Foundation events, click here.