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Higher Education?: How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids---And What We Can Do about It

Higher Education?: How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids---And What We Can Do about It

Hacker, Andrew
Dreifus, Claudia

Paperback

General Education

Publisher Price: $21.99

ISBN10: 031257343X
ISBN13: 9780312573430
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: Aug 2 2011
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.82 Width: 5.56 Depth: 8.28
Language: English

A quarter of a million dollars. It's the going tab for four years at most top-tier colleges. Why does it cost so much and is it worth it?

In this provocative investigation, the renowned sociologist Andrew Hacker and New York Times writer Claudia Dreifus make an incisive case that the American way of higher education--now a $420 billion-per-year business--has lost sight of its primary mission: the education of our young people. They probe the true performance of the Ivy League, the baleful influence of tenure, an unhealthy reliance on part-time teachers, and supersized bureaucracies which now have lives of their own.

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