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 / 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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hacker, Andrew
Other Authors: Dreifus, Claudia
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Times Books, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Education, Higher > United States.
College costs > United States.
College teachers > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • The world of the professoriate
  • Administrative overload
  • Contingent education
  • The golden dozen
  • Teaching: good, great, abysmal
  • The triumph of training
  • Why college costs so much
  • Fireproof: the tangled issue of tenure
  • The athletics incubus
  • Student bodies
  • Visiting the future in Florida
  • The college crucible: add students and stir
  • Schools we like: our top ten list.

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