Despite college administrators’ best efforts, most of them are failing to prepare students for the real world. Part of that, though, is the students’ fault.

According to a working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, college kids don’t respond well when you tell them that good grades take hard work. They may just lower their expectations.

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