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Higher education? : how colleges are wasting our money and failing our kids--and what we can do about it / Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus.
Publication details: New York : Times Books, 2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: 271 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780805087345 :
- 0805087346 :
- LA227.4 .H33 2010
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Summary: 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 Evergreen State to Florida Gulf Coast University, Hacker and Dreifus reveal those faculties and institutions that are getting it right and proving that teaching and learning can be achieved--and at a much more reasonable price.
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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| LA 227.4 .B665 2013 Higher education in America / | LA227.4 .C644 2016 Toward a more perfect university / | LA 227.4 .D46 2011 Abelard to Apple : the fate of American colleges and universities / | LA 227.4 .H33 2010 Higher education? : how colleges are wasting our money and failing our kids--and what we can do about it / | LA 227.4 .K36 2010 DIY U : edupunks, edupreneurs, and the coming transformation of higher education / | LA 227.4 .P58 2007 Educating the net generation : how to engage students in the 21st century / | LA 227.4 .R478 2012 The higher education bubble / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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 Evergreen State to Florida Gulf Coast University, Hacker and Dreifus reveal those faculties and institutions that are getting it right and proving that teaching and learning can be achieved--and at a much more reasonable price.
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