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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.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 289 pages ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780312573430
  • 031257343X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 378.73
LOC classification:
  • LA 227.4 H118h 2011
Contents:
Part 1: What went wrong? -- World of the professoriate -- Administrative overload -- Contingent education -- Part 2: Ideals and illusions -- The golden dozen -- Teaching: good, great, abysmal -- The triumph of training -- Part 3: Some immodest proposals -- Why college costs so much -- Fireproof: the tangled issue of tenure -- The athletics incubus -- Student bodies -- Part 4: Facing the future -- Visiting the future in Florida -- The college crucible: add students and stir -- Schools we like--our top ten list.
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.
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"With a new afterword"--Cover
"Originally published in hardcover format by Time Books" a division of Henry Holt and Company .-- verso of title page

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-254) and index.

Part 1: What went wrong? -- World of the professoriate -- Administrative overload -- Contingent education -- Part 2: Ideals and illusions -- The golden dozen -- Teaching: good, great, abysmal -- The triumph of training -- Part 3: Some immodest proposals -- Why college costs so much -- Fireproof: the tangled issue of tenure -- The athletics incubus -- Student bodies -- Part 4: Facing the future -- 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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