Degrees of inequality : how the politics of higher education sabotaged the American dream / Suzanne Mettler.

America's higher education system is failing its students. In the space of a generation, we have gone from being the best-educated society in the world to one in which a college degree benefits only to those in the top income brackets. In Degrees of Inequality, acclaimed political scientist Suz...

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Main Author: Mettler, Suzanne
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2014]
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