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

Name: Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids - And What We Can Do about It
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ISBN: 9780805087345

ISBN-10: 0805087346

ISBN-13: 9780805087345

Edition: 2010

Authors: Andrew Hacker, Claudia Dreifus

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Whatrs"s gone wrong at our colleges and universities'”and how to get American higher education back on trackA quarter of a million dollars. Itrs"s the going tab for four years at most top-tier universities. Why does it cost so much and is it worth it?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 young adults. Going behind the myths and mantras, they probe the true performance of the Ivy League, the baleful influence of tenure, an unhealthy reliance on part-time teachers, and the supersized bureaucracies…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 8/3/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.40" wide x 9.40" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Introduction: Higher Education?



What Went Wrong?



The World of the Professoriate



Administrative Overload



Contingent Education



Ideals and Illusions



The Golden Dozen



Teaching: Good, Great, Abysmal



The Triumph of Training



Some Immodest Proposals



Why College Costs So Much



Fireproof: The Tangled Issue of Tenure



The Athletics Incubus



Student Bodies



Facing the Future



Visiting the Future in Florida



The College Crucible: Add Students and Stir



Schools We Like-Our Top Ten List


Coda


Sources


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index