Higher education? : how colleges are wasting our money and failing our kids--and what we can do about it / Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus.

Calling for a thorough overhaul of a self-indulgent system, the authors 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 young adults. Taking readers on a road trip from Princeton to Evergre...

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Main Author: Hacker, Andrew
Other Authors: Dreifus, Claudia
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Times Books, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
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